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

Brian Stanley: The RSA gives advice and the Department makes recommendations. If legislation is needed, the Department prepares that for the Minister. We are a bit clearer on that now.

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

Brian Stanley: The point being made is that this is not happening, and we are all aware of that. The truck drivers have to keep out because their mirrors are getting broken, and mirrors cost €300 or €400 in some cases.

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

Brian Stanley: Can we ask for that, because it was suggested? This has come up a lot and is a thorny subject with the public. It will be a thornier one by September when we do not have enough school bus drivers. Will Mr. Rowland come back to the committee with clarification on that? I heard of an office this morning I did not know existed. From the answers given it seems that it was tendered and is...

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

Brian Stanley: There is a professor who is not-----

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

Brian Stanley: Sorry, Deputy, I am chairing the meeting. There is a professor who is not here this morning, but we need an explanation for this because it is totally unsatisfactory. I agree with the Deputy. I have representations about this as well. Not a month goes by when I do not get them. We will have a pile of them by September because a lot of bus drivers, some of whom are friends of mine, will...

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)

Brian Stanley: One Deputy at a time. I invite Ms O'Connor to respond.

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.