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

Brian Stanley: In terms of the next tier down, could Mr. Waide supply the committee with a breakdown of the different categories of staff structures from 2020 to 2024? Can Mr. Waide supply just a note, I do not want a whole fog of detail, but only a note setting out the staff structure. In relation to Atlas, at one stage we had a huge waiting time for NCT tests. It was difficult to get them. You had...

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

Brian Stanley: What were they?

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

Brian Stanley: There was a penalty. Was that collected?

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

Brian Stanley: Some of us will be back here in the afternoon.

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

Brian Stanley: Sorry, the Deputy can in a second.

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

Brian Stanley: That €3.8 million was collected.

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

Brian Stanley: That is fine. I thank Ms Colhoun. I call Deputy Verona Murphy on a brief matter.

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

Brian Stanley: What is happening as well is that you have 15 cars on the road instead of a minibus with one driver. There is greenhouse gas emissions and road safety.

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

Brian Stanley: Fifteen vehicles on the road create a greater risk.

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

Brian Stanley: The point has been made, loud and clear. I would appreciate it if Mr. Waide would come back to the committee on that. It is important.

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

Brian Stanley: It is a subject on which members are passionate. The witnesses can see that in the room this morning. We know it is a difficult job. Any of us who are on the roads can see what is out there every day. The RSA has a role but so has every driver, every local authority, every member of An Garda Síochána and everyone else who has anything to do with this. It is really important. ...

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

Brian Stanley: Just under €1 million. That is as it should be. There is passion around this and people are very concerned about it. We need to reset the dial because when I started driving, just over 600 a year were being killed on the roads and there was probably one tenth of the number of cars on the road, driving at half the speed. There was a particular reason for that at the time but we...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: The public business before us is as follows: minutes of meeting of 20 June 2024; accounts and financial statements; correspondence; work programme; and any other business. The minutes of our meeting of 20 June 2024 have been circulated. Do any members wish to raise any issues or matters regarding the minutes? No. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, the minutes will be published...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Does anybody have any questions about those? No. Can we agree to note the listing of accounts and financial statements? Agreed. As usual, they will be published as part of the minutes. I move to correspondence. As previously agreed, items that were not flagged for discussion for this meeting will be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated, and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Okay. We will ask HRI to respond to that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Last week, we discussed potential engagements for the autumn, and a tentative schedule of meetings has been added to the work programme. It is proposed to prioritise meetings with Uisce Éireann, the HSE, the Charities Regulator, the Land Development Agency and University of Limerick. If members are happy to proceed on that basis, the secretariat will make the necessary arrangements....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: Is part of that being built on the Iveagh Gardens?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: There are issues around that as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: A picture as well, I think, would be useful. I know some bits of information came out at that meeting, but the way the information comes can be a bit back-and-forth and a bit chaotic at times. What would be useful is if we could put together the genesis of the project, just a sentence on where this came from, the scale of it, where it is now in terms of the size increase, the projected cost...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: It was changed.