Road Safety
Dail Éireann — 2023-10-05
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Martin Kenny (SF), Sligo-Leitrim

The main issue that many people are looking at in respect of this is the reduction in speed limits on various roads around the country. We certainly need to see that. There is no big opposition to it. However, people are concerned that if the law is not proportionate, it will often not be complied with. We can all recognise this. Many Deputies will know people who were given a speeding fine for being 5 km/h over the speed limit and the camera took a shot of them. Theirs was the only car on a wide open road and they felt this was unfair. The phrase "shooting fish in a barrel" is often used when this happens, yet we see people who drive erratically and extremely dangerously and there does not seem to be the same emphasis on ensuring that they are taken off the road. In my view and in the view of most rational people looking at this, a small minority of people behaving in a very reckless fashion cause a lot of these accidents.

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Sitting date: 2023-10-05