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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I think that is victim-blaming, to be quite honest, because of where responsibility is placed. I believe the going to school booklet is still live on the RSA website.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It begins with dodgy research. It states that research shows that children aged under 12 should not cross roads on their own. In fact, the research points to those under ten years old. It has conflated-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have the FOI that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have the FOI on the research it was based on and it was ten-year-olds.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The second point it states is that children should wear high-visibility clothing when out walking. That firmly and squarely places the blame on parents and young children. We should be engineering our roads so it is safe for our children to walk to school.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Taking into account that it is quite cheap to do, what cost-benefit analysis is done on the hi-vis expenditure? It has an impact on where blame is apportioned for road collisions. Is there an underpinning cost-benefit analysis?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: On that topic, I would be less worried about councillors varying the speed limit down and more worried about them varying it up. I suspect that will be the more problematic issue. The basic metric in front of us is fatalities on the roads. That is a very important metric and one that we want to drive down. We have seen the number of fatalities decrease from 365 in 2006 to 181 last year,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I ask Mr. Rowland to furnish the committee with some details.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The RSA's briefing note is very good and detailed but I could not see that information anywhere.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I want to talk about how accidents are reported. For example, if a middle-aged cyclist is knocked down on a road the report will state what the cyclist was doing, and the age and gender of the cyclist. The report would not tell me that the car was making a right-hand turn manoeuvre, passing through a bike lane or passing through a gap of stationary cars. It would not tell me anything about...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Will the RSA have a proactive input?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Has the RSA asked for more information on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have an eye on the clock so I ask Ms Kelly to concentrate on the metrics the RSA is trying to include on, say, the driver's side in respect of an asymmetric collision involving a vulnerable road user.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Perhaps the RSA can furnish us with a note. I do not mean to be rude but I only have one minute and 40 seconds to raise a couple of other issues. I am very interested in finding out what data fields are reported, what are the GDPR issues and how we can anonymise that information to better understand, particularly with an asymmetric collision, the movements of the person driving the two...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I want to return to the sharing of collision data. The issue arose in 2020. Did Mr. Walsh say a ministerial order was signed last week?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is amazing the things that happen the week before a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am sure there was. The coincidence always astounds me. The interim period lasted four years. When did the RSA bring this issue to the attention of the Department? In respect of the legal process, we are talking about ministerial orders but there is a need for legislation. We have had several Bills brought through the Department of Transport, including a miscellaneous provisions Bill....
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: With the indulgence of the Chair, I would like to ask a final question. Members would be interested in seeing a timeline for the interactions around moving from establishing the problem to resolving it. In respect of serious collision data, we had relied on the Garda Síochána and now, because of recommendations made by the European Commission, we are starting to take the serious...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Will Mr. Rowland put a percentage figure on that in terms of the difference in reporting using An Garda Síochána's figures and hospital figures? Are we talking about 20% or 50%?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: So the figure of €1.39 billion could be a serious underestimate.