Results 421-440 of 1,057,114 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Máiría Cahill OR speaker:Catherine Murphy OR speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh OR speaker:John McGuinness) in 'Committee meetings'
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Catherine Murphy: It is outside of what the Road Safety Authority can do, essentially. It is down to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I will ask a parliamentary question on that. I do not have the time to address it now. It is illegal to drive unaccompanied on a learner permit, yet people arrive unaccompanied to NCT centres, for example. What is the Road Safety Authority doing about that? What can it do about that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Catherine Murphy: The Garda is being asked to enforce that. People arrive to Road Safety Authority centres. Do staff ring the Garda? Are people advised that they should not arrive unaccompanied? Is the Road Safety Authority taking a particular initiative in this regard?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I will stop there because I want to use my time for the questions I want to ask, rather than winding my time down in a way that I do not find satisfactory. I refer to the metrics I described earlier. The Road Safety Authority referred to the lack of sharing of information and the issue with the data commissioner, as well as due course. Does Mr. Waide have any idea of a ballpark idea of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Does Mr. Walsh expect that to happen within the lifetime of this Government?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I want to go back to the multiple learner permit issue. This may well be the responsibility of the Department because ministerial priorities have not been followed up on. Multiple learner permits is one such issue, as is a review of the driving test curriculum. What relationship is there between the Department and Road Safety Authority in terms of progressing those issues? Are there...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Over 6,000 learners failed to show up for scheduled tests in 2023. They continue to renew their permits. I am not in favour of increasing the price of testing. The most important thing is that we get people tested and that they are not driving on learner permits. Has the RSA a strategy for the slots that are wasted and making the system more efficient?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Can the RSA identify if the same people keep failing to show up? Is the system flexible enough to identify that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the RSA for taking the time to attend. I am glad Mr. Waide provided clarity as regards the RSA's openness to attend the committee. The initial response may have struck the wrong tone and was probably ill judged. I am very glad to see the RSA appear before the Committee of Public Accounts today. I put the following questions against the backdrop of a fatality in Waterford...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: To cut through, increased car journeys correlates with increased car collisions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am coming to that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is one in which the RSA has a particular role.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Action 41 of the action plan on road safety strategy is to encourage modal shift to support environmental, safety and health objectives by promoting the use of sustainable and active modes of travel. The lead on this is the Department of Transport but also the sport agency, NTA, Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and the RSA. How much money has the RSA assigned to campaigns that encourage modal shift?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The witnesses will know where I am going with this in that they know I have an opinion on where we place the blame for collisions that involve particularly vulnerable road users. Even though we have gone backwards in the past couple of years, since 2006 we have made improvements with regard to the number of deaths on the roads. We have not seen improvements with pedestrians, however. There...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I want to return to something my colleague, Deputy Steven Matthews, put to the witnesses at a transport committee meeting about submissions on road safety interventions. At that meeting, it was stated that the RSA had not made any submissions, either on section 38 or Part 8 planning matters. Why?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That does not really wash in that these are public consultations. I could point Mr. Waide to many schemes with regard to the weight of the authority of the RSA if the RSA had come in. I believe Ms O'Connor stated in subsequent interviews that they did not want to make submissions on road safety interventions because the RSA did not want to be political. This astounds me. It could be a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Has RSA made submissions on section 38 or Part 8 consultations?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We are talking around the point here. Is it correct that the RSA has not made submissions on Part 8s or section 38s?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: What expertise is there within the RSA to make that submission? Are transport engineers on staff? When a submission is made, who makes that submission and what-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: You are the Road Safety Authority.