Results 461-480 of 1,030,795 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Damien English OR speaker:Réada Cronin OR speaker:Ciarán Cannon OR speaker:Pauline Tully OR speaker:Gerald Nash) in 'Committee meetings'
- 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.
- 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: 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.