Road Safety
Dail Éireann — 2024-02-01
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Jack Chambers (FF), Dublin West

It has a significant evidence base. If Sinn Féin is going to play a populist line on speed limits, I ask you to get behind the actual evidence and support that initiative in the Oireachtas rather than trying to divide opinion. When it comes to the issue of enforcement, yes, it needs to improve and yes, the Garda does need to provide additional prioritisation of enforcement in the context of their overall numbers. We have significant recruitment happening this year and there should be a roads policing dividend from that. Also, the camera-based enforcement strategy which we are working on aims to advance the technological opportunities that exist for better camera-based enforcement to complement the work of the roads policing unit. That is something we are keen to advance as well. Enforcement does need to improve to underpin the wider reforms that we are trying to advance.

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Sitting date: 2024-02-01