Results 461-480 of 1,032,010 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Damien English OR speaker:Ciarán Cannon OR speaker:Noel Grealish OR speaker:Robert Troy) in 'Committee meetings'
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Damien English: The question I asked is this: is your car insured if you do not have a certificate of roadworthiness?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Damien English: It is up to the company.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: The World Health Organization tells us that cars - not cancer and malnutrition - are the leading killer worldwide of children and young people aged between five and 29. The RSA relies on cars and the drivers of cars for 98% of its income. Does Mr. Waide not see a fundamental problem here?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: It is, but the witnesses represent the Road Safety Authority. Cars are the reason our roads are unsafe. Will Mr. Waide answer that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: The reason our roads are unsafe.
- 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)
Damien English: I have two questions, one related to the frustrations the RSA has with technology. Do stakeholders such as insurance companies engage with the RSA and play their part in trying to introduce positive changes? I am aware they did in the past. Does the relationship still exist? The question of busy spots is a bit like that concerning the sharing of data with local authorities. Frequently,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Damien English: Has the RSA a role in that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Damien English: It was on insurance companies.
- 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...