Road Safety Authority
Seanad Éireann — 2023-04-19
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Lynn Boylan (SF), Agricultural Panel

I appreciate that now we are getting an acceptance that the Road Safety Authority Act allows for the Minister to issue that direction to the RSA. However, I am not sensing any urgency about it. It is 12 months since the review took place. This is happening in every other European country; they are able to give those monthly accessible data. We need to see a little bit of urgency around making sure. We are in that critical moment of transforming our road network and trying to encourage people to get active and get out of their cars and cycle and walk. We know the key to that is making it safer for them to do so. I would like to see some urgency, but I appreciate the fact that the Minister of State accepted that the Minister has the powers to do it. I hope that the resources will be made available to the RSA when that direction is given and the authority can do it in a speedy manner.

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Sitting date: 2023-04-19