Results 501-520 of 1,041,944 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Brian Stanley OR speaker:Holly Cairns OR speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh)
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Staff come in for two years. Perhaps these are people who worked in a school of motoring.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: The population is increasing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Why is the Department not giving sanction for more permanent testers? I do not get the logic.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Those were temporary posts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: How many applicants are awaiting a test at the moment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: There are 80,000 people waiting and the officials have it in their hands to sanction permanent ones. I do not get it. Many who were on contract were let go, including in the midlands.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: How many are needed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Roughly, how many? Is it 200 or 300?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Will Mr. Walsh put a figure on the number of testers needed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: That is 200 permanent testers.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Thank you. We will go to a second round of questions. I call Deputy Murphy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: I think the point is that there has to be realism this time and speed limits have to be appropriate at a local level. Councillors must be involved. They will take expert advice, whether that is from An Garda Síochána or a local area engineer, but the council chamber must have that discretion. When the RSA contacts the AILG this issue needs to be emphasised, so that it can make...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Yes, but as Deputy Murphy said, many councillors will be told that speed limits are to be increased by this amount. It is important that councillors are made aware that this is their job.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: On that topic, I would be less worried about councillors varying the speed limit down and more worried about them varying it up. I suspect that will be the more problematic issue. The basic metric in front of us is fatalities on the roads. That is a very important metric and one that we want to drive down. We have seen the number of fatalities decrease from 365 in 2006 to 181 last year,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I ask Mr. Rowland to furnish the committee with some details.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The RSA's briefing note is very good and detailed but I could not see that information anywhere.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I want to talk about how accidents are reported. For example, if a middle-aged cyclist is knocked down on a road the report will state what the cyclist was doing, and the age and gender of the cyclist. The report would not tell me that the car was making a right-hand turn manoeuvre, passing through a bike lane or passing through a gap of stationary cars. It would not tell me anything about...
- 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.