Podcasts about road safety authority

Brendan Walsh, Chief Operating Officer, Road Safety Authority, discusses details of a new plan aimed at reducing driving test times nationwide.

The Road Safety Authority has today launched a major new action plan to tackle long driving test wait times across the country. Brendan Walsh, Chief Operating Officer with the RSA explained the action plan.

Jennifer Whitmore TD, Social Democrats Spokesperson on Transport, discusses driving test wait times as the Road Safety Authority is instructed to publish its plan to reduce wait times next week.

With E-Scooters now considered the most dangerous form of transport in Ireland - according to research from the Road Safety Authority - should basic training be a requirement before taking them on the roads? Drivetime reporter John Cooke went back to school this week to take part in a first of its kind E-Scooter Training Programme.

New data from the Road Safety Authority shows 83,000 applicants were awaiting a test in April. It's now been suggested that learner drivers be allowed to drive unaccompanied. For reaction to this Leo Lieghio, Vice President of the Irish Road Victims Association & Cathal Crowe, Fianna Fail TD & member of the Oireachtas Transport Committee.

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The government has given the Road Safety Authority two weeks to come back with a plan to ensure waiting times for driving tests be restored to a 10-week waiting time target as soon as possible. Latest figures for March of this year show the average waiting time was 24 weeks. For more on this Sean Canney Minister of State at Department of Transport.

With the Bank Holiday weekend upon us, road safety is more important than ever. Aoibhinn Twomey from the Road Safety Authority joins me now to share key advice and timely reminders to help keep us all safe — whether you're hitting the motorway or just driving into town. Buckle up for some practical tips that could make all the difference.

With the Bank Holiday weekend fast approaching, the Road Safety Authority is reminding drivers across the country to never, ever drink and drive.Sarah O'Connor, Director of Partnerships and External Affairs at the Road Safety Authority, joins Kieran to discuss if attitudes to drink driving have disappeared, and how to take extra precautions to stay safe this weekend.

In a new safety campaign the RSA is warning how small increases in speed on rural roads can have deadly consequences. Research from the Road Safety Authority also shows..that half of drivers think it's okay to go up to 10km/h over an 80km/h speed limit. For more on this Sarah O'Connor, Director of Partnerships & External Affairs at the RSA

A Clare MEP is fearful that an impending reduction in the county's speed limits will be ‘impossible to adhere to' and result in greater numbers of people disregarding speed restrictions. From February 7th many of the roads across the county will see a reduction in speed limit with national roads changing from 100km/h to 80km/h, local and rural roads from 80km/h to 60km/h, while built-up areas would be limited to 30KM/H. It follows a review carried out by Transport Infrastructure Ireland and the Road Safety Authority in 2023, which sought to protect vulnerable road users and reduce the number of fatalities seen on Irish roads. Scariff Independent MEP, Michael McNamara, claims existing speed limits are already not being respected and that the proposed changes will be counterproductive.

After another night of sub-zero temperatures, the ongoing cold snap continues to cause disruption in many parts of the country. We get updates from our reporters around the country and Met Eireann. We also hear about the good nature of people with many helping elderly and neighbours. Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast this morning was Gerry Murphy, Forecaster from Met Eireann and Aoibhinn Twomey, Public Relations Lead with The Road Safety Authority. Our reporters around the country were Jamie O'Hara, Newstalk's Southern Reporter in Mallow, Barry Whyte, Newstalk's Chief Reporter in Tipperary Town. Also Josh Crosbie, Newstalk Reporter in Athlone and Stephanie Rohan, Newstalk Reporter in the Kildare area.

After another night of sub-zero temperatures, the ongoing cold snap continues to cause disruption in many parts of the country. We get updates from our reporters around the country and Met Eireann. We also hear about the good nature of people with many helping elderly and neighbours. Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast this morning was Gerry Murphy, Forecaster from Met Eireann and Aoibhinn Twomey, Public Relations Lead with The Road Safety Authority. Our reporters around the country were Jamie O'Hara, Newstalk's Southern Reporter in Mallow, Barry Whyte, Newstalk's Chief Reporter in Tipperary Town. Also Josh Crosbie, Newstalk Reporter in Athlone and Stephanie Rohan, Newstalk Reporter in the Kildare area.

Weather warnings are ‘likely' to be upgraded while temperatures could fall to -8 degrees later in the week. We get a weather update from Rebecca Cantwell, Met Eireann Forecaster and also Aoibhinn Twomey,the Public Relations Lead with The Road Safety Authority.

Weather warnings are ‘likely' to be upgraded while temperatures could fall to -8 degrees later in the week. We get a weather update from Rebecca Cantwell, Met Eireann Forecaster and also Aoibhinn Twomey,the Public Relations Lead with The Road Safety Authority.

A yellow weather warning for low temperatures is in place until 11am this morning as Met Éireann forecast sub-zero temperatures and “very disruptive and impactful” weather conditions over the weekend. We spoke to Alan O'Reilly from Carlow Weather, Aoibhinn Twomey, Communications Manager with The Road Safety Authority and also Aubrey McCarthy, Chairman of Tiglin Homeless Services.

As thousands of people take to Irish roads this weekend to make the journey home for Christmas An Garda Síochána in conjunction with the Road Safety Authority are launching their final National Slow Down day today. Chief Superintendent Jane Humphries from the Garda National Roads Policing Bureau

On Monday's show, we spoke about the Road Safety Authority's decision to increase the price of a driving licence, the learner permit, and the NCT. The price of a driver licence and learner permit are set to increase by 10 euro, rising to 65 and 45 euro. Meanwhile, the cost of an NCT will increase by 5 euro, to 60 euro, while a re-test will rise by 12 euro, to 40 euro. These increases will take effect from the 1st of January. To hear more on this, Alan Morrissey was joined in-studio by driving instructor from Chris Curran, of Chris Curran Coaching. Photo (c) Lisa Fotios from Pexels via canva.com

Driving licences, learner's permit fees and National Car Tests costs all are set to rise in the New Year, The Road Safety Authority announced yesterday. The price hikes will see a learners permit rise from €35 to €45 and a driving licence that has cost €55 jump to €65.These increased costs will take effect from next month – but what are your thoughts? Is Ireland becoming increasingly anti-car, and is there now too much of a strain on young motorists trying to get on the road?Guest host Clare McKenna is joined by listeners to discuss.

A plan to introduce “speed awareness” courses in lieu of penalty points is to be put forward to government by the Road Safety Authority. We discuss these plans with Shane O'Donoghue, Editor with completecar.ie.

A plan to introduce “speed awareness” courses in lieu of penalty points is to be put forward to government by the Road Safety Authority. Would courses like this help to reduce road deaths? Photo by JESHOOTS.com

More than 7,000 people have been arrested for drink and drug-driving so far this year, which equates to one driver offending every hour of every day. That's according to figures from a new multi-agency survey. We got reaction to these figures with Sarah O'Connor Director of Partnerships and External Affairs at the Road Safety Authority.

Sarah O'Connor, Director of External Affairs, Road Safety Authority discusses their appeal urging people not to buy e-scooters, scramblers, or quad bikes for children this Christmas.

Liz Coleman, Deputy Head of Forecasting at Met Eireann and David Martin from the Road Safety Authority

The Road Safety Authority is to be divided into two separate agencies from the start of next year. An independent review published on Tuesday recommends one part take responsibility for driving tests and NCTs, while the other will take care of road safety campaigns, education, and research. Minister of State at the Department of Transport, James Lawless, says Ireland is in a much better place on the roads than it was 20 years ago... To discuss what this move will mean, Alan Morrissey was joined by Fianna Fáil Cllr, Pat O'Gorman, and Síle Ginnane from Better Ennis. Picture © Pat Flynn

A new RSA programme, launched in September, delivering road safety education to transition year students has proved to be a success. To tell us more about the programme, we were joined by Mary Madden, Director of Schools from the Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim ETB and by the RSA's Director of Partnerships and External Affairs Sarah O'Connor.

PJ talks to Cllr John Paul O'Shea who disagrees with raising fees for driving tests and the NCT to increase Road Safety Authority funding. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Government has been advised to increase driving licence and car testing fees, hike penalties for dangerous road users and expand direct exchequer funding of road safety amid a series of dire financial warnings about the Road Safety Authority.That's according to an external review into the agency reported by The Irish Times this morning.Michael Healy Rae, Independent TD for Kerry and Dominic Brophy, Director of the Professional Driving Instructors Association join Kieran to discuss.

The Association will be revealing new research into fatalities and serious injuries among pedestrians as well as focusing on the issue of distracted drivers. Sarah O'Connor is director of partnerships and external affairs with the RSA she joined Cormac to tells us more.

The Department of Transport is planning to break up the RSA and give its function over to two new bodies. It is proposed that a driver and vehicle services agency will be established.. while a new Road Safety Office will run road safety education & promotional campaigns. To discuss Minister of State in the Department of Transport James Lawless.

Plans for a crackdown on motorists who have held provisional licences for years, and sometimes decades, have been delayed over fears of a knock-on effect on waiting lists for driving tests.A briefing from the Department of Transport said any dramatic change on how many learner permits a person could hold would lead to “a surge of applications” for driving tests on an ‘already overburdened testing system”.Figures from the Road Safety ­Authority show more than 67,000 drivers are on their third learner permit or later.Is this the right approach by the Department?To discuss, Andrea is joined by Brenda Bolger from the Bolger School of Motoring, as well as listeners.

A new Road Safety Authority advert has been criticised as an insult to non car users, those with disabilities and public transport users.The ad features a young man relying on others to get around – in the video, quite literally, he is being carried in the arms of friends and family as he gets from place to place.The RSA shared the video online saying - ‘When you lose your licence, you become reliant on other people to take you where you need to go and you become a burden for others. If you get caught drink or drug driving, you will be disqualified'.What do you think?To discuss, Andrea Gilligan is joined by Dr Sean Owens from Irish Doctors for the Environment, Neasa Bheilbigh, Chairperson with the Irish Cycling Campaign, Bernard Mulvany from Access For All and more.Image: RSA

There is anger over road safety authority ad campaign and it has been branded ‘ablelist' by Green Party TD Neasa Hourigan. We discuss this with Conor Faughnan, Transport commentator and consultant for the Royal Irish Automobile Club.

Myles O'Brien, motorcycle accident survivor & Sarah O'Connor, Director of Partnerships & External Affairs at the Road Safety Authority

The Head of Roads Policing in Clare is encouraging motorists to lock their phones in the glove box this Bank Holiday Weekend to avoid a serious incident. It comes as new Road Safety Authority data has revealed 9% of motorists were observed using a mobile device last year which was up 6% on on 2022. Drivers of light goods vehicles had the highest mobile device usage rate at 13% while rates for drivers of other vehicle types ranged between 6% and 8%. Roads Policing Superintendent of the Clare-Tipperary Garda Division Eddie Golden says while drivers taking calls has historically been a problem, it's now common to see people checking social media while driving.

James Lawless, Minister of State at the Department of Transport, outlines the details of the Road Safety Authority and An Garda Síochána August Bank Holiday weekend road safety appeal.

Shane was joined by Sarah O'Connor, Director of Partnerships and External Affairs at the Road Safety Authority. They discussed the RSA's new "Time to Talk" TV ad, launched to address the rising number of fatalities on Irish roads.

The Road Safety Authority has launched a new TV ad to extend its Time-to-Talk campaign. The campaign aims to address the rising number of fatalities on Irish roads by encouraging people to have life-saving conversations with loved ones about their unsafe driving behaviours. Director of Partnerships and External Affairs at the RSA, Sarah O Connor.

The total number of deaths in road accidents so far this year stands at 97, which is 12 more than in the same period last year. Director of partnerships and external affairs, Road Safety Authority, Sarah O'Connor joins Cormac in studio to discuss the worrying trend.

A Clare community group has issued a renewed scathing criticism of the Road Safety Authority in light of mounting fatalities on Irish Roads. So far this year, 97 people have died in road traffic collisions across the country, with four such incidents in Clare. The overall figure is 14% above the number of fatalities recorded nationwide at this juncture of last year, although under the RSA's current action plan, its aiming to reduce serious injuries and road deaths by 50% by 2030. Better Ennis Spokesperson Síle Guinnane says the organisation needs reform as its failing on too many levels.

Calls are growing for the introduction of dedicated driver education courses in Clare schools in order to reduce road traffic collisions. New figures from the Road Safety Authority show that 26 people suffered serious injuries in collisions on this county's roads in 2022. A serious injury is recorded when a person is admitted to hospital as an 'in-patient', or has sustained fractures, concussions, crushing, severe cuts and lacerations, or severe general shock. Clare Road Safety Working Group member Clarecastle Sinn Féin Councillor Tommy Guilfoyle says every driver must be aware of the consequences of their actions.

The Road Safety Authority are urging people to wear seatbelts as new research reveals a 4% decrease in seat belt wearing rates. To discuss this Director of partnerships and external affairs with the Road Safety Authority Sarah O'Connor.

Farmers in Clare are being advised to rein in their dogs while silage is being cut over the next few months. Silage season is now well underway with more than 19 million grass bales expected to be made in Ireland this summer. The Road Safety Authority has recently issued advice for driving agricultural vehicles at harvest time - including that the driving mirror must provide an adequate view of the road to the rear, and that an escort vehicle should be considered by those driving larger vehicles to warn other road users. Clare County Dog Warden Frankie Coote insists keeping dogs away from farm machinery at this time of year is in the interest of the dogs and the drivers.

Justin McCarthy discusses an appeal by the Road Safety Authority for permission to increase the fees for services including driving tests and NCT.

The Road Safety Authority is calling for emergency legislation to double the number of penalty points given to drivers for speeding and mobile phone use.It comes as 81 people have died on Irish roads so far this year, the worst record in a decade.Geraldine Herbert, motoring editor of the Sunday Independent, and Susan Gray, chairperson and founder of PARC Road Safety Group, joined The Last Word to discuss whether increasing penalty points would help make roads safer.Catch the full chat by pressing the ‘Play' button on this page.

The Kerry Road Safety Working Together Group, made up of the Road Safety Authority, Gardaí, Kerry County Council, Transport Infrastructure Ireland and the National Ambulance Service have launched a multi-agency plan aimed at reducing road deaths and promoting road safety. Jerry spoke to Inspector Gary O’Carroll of the Kerry Roads Policing Unit, An Garda Síochána and Fiona O’Neill, Senior Engineer, Roads and Transportation, Kerry County Council.

We talk to RSA chair Liz O'Donnell.

Liz O'Donnell, Chair, Road Safety Authority