Results 441-460 of 1,030,865 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Damien English OR speaker:Ciarán Cannon OR speaker:Gerald Nash OR speaker:Michael Moynihan)
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: What is the point of those three aspects? Why did Mr. Waide outline them in particular?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: To make our roads safer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: That is fair enough; that is fine. What is the greatest cause of the undermining of road safety in Ireland and across the world? Why are our roads unsafe?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: On whose part?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: Mr. Waide does not see the RSA as having any role in working towards a reduction in the number of cars on our roads.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: Bearing in mind, they are the very thing that makes our roads unsafe.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: That is my problem. It is not the fault of Mr. Waide nor any of his colleagues who work with him. The very raison d'être of the Road Safety Authority is being called into question. Its sole function should be to make our roads safer. Yet, when Mr. Waide is questioned in this committee and on RTÉ, he lists out all of its other responsibilities, which are onerous. When he was...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: Is Mr. Waide saying he wants to see the RSA divested of all its other responsibilities?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: I am not questioning that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: That leads me to the next question. I agree with Mr. Waide that he cannot do that. He does not have the legislative power or resources. The review is under way, but I have been arguing for the last year or so that we really need to explore the establishment of a road safety commissioner. The authority's chairperson, Liz O'Donnell, was asked by Claire Byrne on 14 March whether there would...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: Does Mr. Waide have an opinion on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Damien English: We are here to discuss the figures and the budget and to focus on the bang for our buck. It strikes me that we drive the roads every day, and none of us is a saint. The figures are going the wrong way. Given what we are seeing on the roads, it is amazing that the figures are not a great deal worse. The figures do not capture how serious this is. We are in a really difficult situation in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Damien English: Should it not be on the advice of the RSA, Who is advising whom? That is all I need to know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Damien English: So it is RSA advice. Let us be clear.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Damien English: Mr. Rowland gave the impression that it was not the RSA. The RSA's advice is that someone over the age of 70 should not drive a bus.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Damien English: I know that. I am not a medical person. I am not saying Professor O'Neill is right or wrong. I want to know who is making the decision. Where does the buck land? Is it the RSA and not the national office for traffic medicine?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Damien English: Not on RSA advice.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Damien English: I note that, I appreciate that and I agree with it but what of in-car technology? Are we missing out on the use of technology in the vehicles?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Damien English: I do not want to hog the meeting. Mr. Waide believes that and I sense he is right. My question was who is responsible for driving that? Is it the RSA, the Department or us? Who or where is the responsibility? Nobody has the answer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Damien English: There was the question about insurance and tax. I know I am being a bit of a nuisance but this is useful.