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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)

Catherine Murphy: I want to focus on disqualified drivers. Something like 1,800 learners were disqualified in 2023 and only 3% of them surrendered their permit to the Road Safety Authority. From a parliamentary question reply, I discovered that only one driver out of the 10,000 who were disqualified in court in 2022 and 2023 was then convicted of not surrendering their licence. In the UK, for example, a...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We then come back to the level of enforcement and the data that the Road Safety Authority collects, for example, if somebody is detected as having been driving while disqualified. Data is going to be important. In the case of fatal accidents where people were driving unaccompanied with a learner permit in the last five years, does the Road Safety Authority separate out that information so...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Thank you for that information. Information is going to be very important, in particular, how the Road Safety Authority is going to apply that information to reduce the number of fatalities. To move to a different subject, what was the totality of fines for non-adherence to the NCT timelines applied to the company that was outsourced to do that job in the last couple of years?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: “Service credits” sounds very positive.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Is that how the contract is structured?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I will move to another topic. In terms of defining the safety of roads, is it solely based on the absence of accidents and fatalities or does the Road Safety Authority look at it from the point of view that they may be used by, for example, children and vulnerable road users? What is the metric used? How does the Road Safety Authority determine that?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I do know a little bit about this. I know about road design, the speed for each road and all the rest of it, and I know we have a lot of very old, small rural roads. I would ask the Road Safety Authority to add something on the speed limits. A few years ago, the national lower speed limit was set at 80 km/h to achieve consistency and the local authorities rushed out and bought a load of 80...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: A national speed limit was set and local authorities were supposed to comply with parameters and different types of roads. The speed limit of 80 km/h was routinely used. For example, where locations had a lower speed limit, that was to be increased to 80 km/h. I am not sure that it is-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We got a statement overnight on the sharing of data, which states it will be done by the end of the year. However, today we have been told it will be done in due course. When I asked Dr. Walsh, I got an inconclusive answer. There was a changeover yesterday, as we know, and the Minister of State became the Minister for Finance. Could we get something more conclusive on this? The phrase "in...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I understand that; I am talking about the legislation that is required.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Dr. Walsh is only getting to the answer to the question I am asking.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: How come the former Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, could go on RTÉ and say it will be in place by the end of the year, and how come Dr. Walsh cannot tell me that?