Results 461-480 of 1,029,568 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Máiría Cahill OR speaker:Damien English OR speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh)
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Will the RSA have a proactive input?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Has the RSA asked for more information on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have an eye on the clock so I ask Ms Kelly to concentrate on the metrics the RSA is trying to include on, say, the driver's side in respect of an asymmetric collision involving a vulnerable road user.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Perhaps the RSA can furnish us with a note. I do not mean to be rude but I only have one minute and 40 seconds to raise a couple of other issues. I am very interested in finding out what data fields are reported, what are the GDPR issues and how we can anonymise that information to better understand, particularly with an asymmetric collision, the movements of the person driving the two...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I want to return to the sharing of collision data. The issue arose in 2020. Did Mr. Walsh say a ministerial order was signed last week?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is amazing the things that happen the week before a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am sure there was. The coincidence always astounds me. The interim period lasted four years. When did the RSA bring this issue to the attention of the Department? In respect of the legal process, we are talking about ministerial orders but there is a need for legislation. We have had several Bills brought through the Department of Transport, including a miscellaneous provisions Bill....
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: With the indulgence of the Chair, I would like to ask a final question. Members would be interested in seeing a timeline for the interactions around moving from establishing the problem to resolving it. In respect of serious collision data, we had relied on the Garda Síochána and now, because of recommendations made by the European Commission, we are starting to take the serious...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Will Mr. Rowland put a percentage figure on that in terms of the difference in reporting using An Garda Síochána's figures and hospital figures? Are we talking about 20% or 50%?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: So the figure of €1.39 billion could be a serious underestimate.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It could as much as twice as many.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Damien English: We are here to discuss the figures and the budget and to focus on the bang for our buck. It strikes me that we drive the roads every day, and none of us is a saint. The figures are going the wrong way. Given what we are seeing on the roads, it is amazing that the figures are not a great deal worse. The figures do not capture how serious this is. We are in a really difficult situation in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Damien English: Should it not be on the advice of the RSA, Who is advising whom? That is all I need to know.
- 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.