‘€2m for speed limits is not enough to keep children safe’

A bereaved mother is pressing ahead with plans to lead a four-day Dáil protest next week over speed limits in housing estates because she believes €2m made available to local authorities to implement 30km/h limits is not enough to keep children safe.

Roseann Brennan’s six-year-old son, Jake, died after being knocked down by a car near his home in Lintown Grove, Kilkenny, last June. Determined that her son’s name and spirit would live on, she founded Jake’s Legacy and began a campaign to have residential safety issues addressed.

Ms Brennan wants Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe to enforce a 30km/h speed limit in housing estates and not leave it up to councils to decide.