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‹ Order of Business Road traffic Bill and Garda numbers
Summary
Dessie Ellis links rising road deaths and reduced traffic-policing numbers to the need for a road traffic Bill. The Taoiseach says the Bill is due next year.
This Easter weekend a Garda operation aimed at detecting traffic violations will be carried out countrywide. The number of gardaí on traffic duty has been reduced from 1,200 to 800. Last year and to date this year the number of deaths on our roads has increased and speeding has been identified as one of the main reasons for this. Will the Taoiseach indicate when the road traffic Bill will be introduced and whether the reduction in the number of gardaí on traffic duty could have had an impact in the context of the number of deaths on our roads?
