Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Road safety is a shared responsibility, and it is one which this Government takes very seriously. As the Deputy will appreciate, road safety policy falls under the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Transport.

It is my understanding that Parliamentary Question No. 25 of 28 February was answered by the Minister of State at the Department of Transport.

As noted in Minister Chambers' response to the Deputy, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has a statutory remit to report on fatal, serious and minor injury collisions on public roads. This would include the areas requested by the Deputy.

The RSA is responsible for publishing official statistics sourced from information supplied by all agencies. As the Deputy will appreciate, as Minister for Justice I have no remit over the information supplied by agencies/bodies such as Transport Infrastructure Ireland to the RSA to enable them to fulfil this statutory responsibility.

The Garda Commissioner is responsible for the management and administration of Garda business, including information sharing with other Government agencies/bodies such as the RSA. As Minister, I have no role in these independent functions.

I have contacted An Garda Síochána for any operational information they may have, and I have been advised by the Garda authorities that to compile the specific information requested by the Deputy, in the format requested, would require a disproportionate expenditure of Garda time and resources.