Vehicle Registration Tax
Dail Éireann — 2023-11-23
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Denis Naughten (IND), Roscommon-Galway

Every car that goes onto Irish roads should have automated emergency braking, lane departure warning, blind sport detection and drowsiness and attention detection. Those four measures alone would have a significant impact on road traffic deaths. Based on UK road safety reports for 2019 and research that was carried out on that, those types of measures would reduce skidding and overturning accidents by 41%, and pedestrian accidents by 28.4%. Sadly, to date this year, we have had 38 pedestrian deaths on our roads, which are the highest figures in 15 years. If these measures were introduced on our roads, they would reduce the number of those pedestrian deaths by 11 so far this year. These are people who would be alive and walking around today if we had this type of technology on Irish roads.

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Sitting date: 2023-11-23