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

Ciarán Cannon: On that basis, the vast majority of the RSA's income accrues from the activities mentioned. People lose their lives on our roads and are injured to a serious extent which impacts them for the rest of their lives. Does Mr. Waide not see a conflict of interest? Is it not the case that the more drivers and cars on our roads, the more income accrues to the very authority responsible for...

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

Ciarán Cannon: What is at the heart of the work of the RSA? What is the remit of the Road Safety Authority?

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

Ciarán Cannon: What is the point of the research?

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

Ciarán Cannon: Why does the RSA exist?

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

Ciarán Cannon: Does the RSA exist to keep our roads safe?

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

Ciarán Cannon: What is the purpose of those three fundamentals? What is the ultimate aim of the RSA?

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)

Brian Stanley: I will ask a question before we take a break. Obviously, the commissioner decision will be a policy issue. What is the timeline for the conclusion of the review of the RSA?

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

Brian Stanley: Yes, but when will it conclude? I am interested in solutions, Dr. Walsh.

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

Brian Stanley: There will be an Aire nua, a new Minister.