Results 441-460 of 1,046,447 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Máiría Cahill OR speaker:Michael D'Arcy OR speaker:Catherine Murphy OR speaker:Imelda Munster)
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: Have the Department and the Minister not budged on that as yet?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: Of the contracts that have not been renewed, what is the reason they have not automatically been renewed, given the shortage and also that the testers have been doing the work for years and, therefore, also have experience?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: Is Mr. Waide saying the Department does not even allow the authority renew an existing contract once it comes to an end?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: That seems ridiculous altogether. That is something to take up with the Minister. As time is of the essence, I will raise another matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: I will if I am given extended time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: If someone applies to renew the contract and is quite happy in the job, is Dr. Walsh saying they are not allowed to have the contract renewed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: Is that not fairly insane, given the waiting lists the length and breadth of the State? I want to move on to another issue - the apt term would be "another farce". People in Drogheda believe the RSA has deemed Drogheda not suitable for a driving test centre. It is the largest town in Ireland with a population of 45,000. Currently, under a northern environs plan, we are preparing for an...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: Stop. If I hearing that again. We are six years on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: That is the case in Dublin every day.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: I am glad to hear that but Mr. Walsh can understand the frustration of the people of Drogheda six years on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: Is he seriously saying there is not an office or a building in Drogheda that is suitable? I pass them every day of the week. The RSA has offices and buildings right around the country.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: Mr. Walsh is tasked with doing this and I have constantly been in touch with him to express sheer frustration.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: Mr. Walsh is tasked with providing a driving test centre.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: I would appreciate it if he could update me on the most recent developments. He said he was looking at something. Was that yesterday?
- 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?