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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: That sounds remarkably like an argument for gun licensing in the US. It is not the guns are the problem, it is the people who use them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: Earlier on Mr. Waide said that he gets really frustrated at the lack of technology available to the RSA, An Garda Síochána and the Department. Yet, when opportunities arise for the use of that, the RSA is stony silent. Assistant Garda commissioner, Paula Hillman, sat in a room close to this on 4 October 2023 and told us that a dashcam portal system would go live in 2024. We are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: That is two locations.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: I said the RSA is silent on active travel.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: You are not heard. Your voice is not there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: No, you need to be an advocate.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: Research is wonderful but you need to be a powerful advocate speaking on the national airwaves every day on behalf of the people who lose brothers, sisters, mothers and daughters.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: The RSA's work in this area has been superb but the most effective way to protect cyclists is to separate them completely from traffic.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: The RSA is utterly silent on this. Whenever a debate arises at national level, and everyone in this room knows the debates that have been had in the past 24 months, the RSA has been nowhere to be heard.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: You are the Road Safety Authority.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: The RSA needs to be that lone, independent, authoritative, unsullied voice for vulnerable road users and it is not. It is that simple.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: I want to go back to Mr. Waide’s most recent comment on analysing the raison d'etre of the RSA and how it is constituted. I thank him for that comment because that is ultimately what I want to raise here today. I wish to point out that the way in which the RSA is established and funded is fundamentally flawed. I am not questioning for a moment the individual commitment of Mr. Waide...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: I thank Mr. Waide. I have a final question. There is research beginning to emanate now from a number of different locations here in Europe and indeed in the US. There is some really good research coming from the US. One particular piece looks at death and injury in the state of Illinois over a period of three years, from 2016 to 2019. All concluded that children are eight times more...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (27 Jun 2024)
Gino Kenny: I want to see all hostages released. We all want to see peace and a settlement in the Middle East. The Minister may not agree with this, but those resisting Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank have a right to engage with the Israeli Defense Forces. They have a right because they are being occupied, murdered and slaughtered. It is an incredible statistic, but since 7 October $23...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (27 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: I have repeatedly condemned the bombardment of Gaza. We in Ireland have taken a number of steps to move towards a political pathway and a ceasefire. We have worked with the Arab partners like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Qatar and others to try to develop a peace process and a proper peace initiative. They have published that. We have engaged with them and also...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (27 Jun 2024)
Catherine Connolly: We are way over time.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (27 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: Ireland has been steadfast in supporting the courts and upholding their jurisdiction.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Passport Services (27 Jun 2024)
Passport Services
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Passport Services (27 Jun 2024)
Matt Carthy: 3. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications on hand for more than three, six, nine and 12 months, respectively; and the measures the Passport Office is enacting to ensure the speedy processing of all applications during peak summer months. [27473/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Passport Services (27 Jun 2024)
Matt Carthy: I acknowledge the tremendous efforts of the Passport Office staff, particularly at this time of the year. Will the Minister tell me the number of passport applications on hand for various lengths of time? What measures are his Department and the Passport Office enacting to ensure there is a speedy processing of all applications during these peak summer months?