Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 May 2023
251. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Transport if his Department will work to implement a hierarchy of users-based approach to road safety and legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23083/23]
View answerMy Department's focus in this area is on the implementation of the Government's Road Safety Strategy (RSS) 2021-2030. This Strategy prescribes 50 high-impact actions and 136 support actions, which aim to help reduce road deaths and serious injuries by 50% in 2030.
The matter to which the Deputy refers is Action 114 of the RSS relating to the ‘Examination of the potential for presumed liability for mechanically propelled vehicles (MPV) drivers in cases of collisions with vulnerable road user's and make recommendations’. At present we do not have immediate plans to legislate for the hierarchy of a users-based approach, but this will be considered for inclusion as part of the consolidation of road traffic legislation.
