6 Feabh 2014, 17:14
A delegation from the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport and Communications will visit the headquarters of the Road Safety Authority in Ballina next Wednesday 12 February.
6 February 2014
The RSA works to improve road safety in Ireland through educational campaigns, vehicle testing, oversight of driver instruction and driver licencing and in undertaking research to improve road safety.
The delegation will engage with the RSA on its approaches to reducing the number of deaths on Irish roads, and what policy steps are necessary to address the worrying increase in road deaths in 2013. The Committee are expected to arrive at the RSA offices at Moyvalley Business Park at 1.30 pm.
Chairman of the Committee John O’Mahony TD says: ““The RSA was established in 2006 as a State Agency to promote and support all aspects of road safety and has been at the vanguard of wide-ranging initiatives to reduce deaths on Irish roads. RSA-supported improvements in education, enforcement and engineering are having a positive effect. However, one death on the roads is a death too many, and the 2013 increase in road deaths are a stark reminder of the dangers of complacency.
“This visit to Ballina will afford Committee Members the opportunity to view first-hand the initiatives the RSA has put in place to date to curb the carnage on our roads and engage with senior management on its plans for future road safety measures.”
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Committee on Transport and Communications
Deputies: Paudie Coffey (Vice-Chair), Michael Colreavy, Timmy Dooley, Dessie Ellis, Tom Fleming, Brendan Griffin, Noel Harrington, Seán Kenny, Éamonn Maloney, Helen McEntee, Michael Moynihan, Patrick O’Donovan, John O’Mahony (Chair) and Ann Phelan, Mick Wallace
Senators: Sean D. Barrett, Terry Brennan, Éamonn Coghlan, Paschal Mooney, Ned O’Sullivan and John Whelan