Irish roads unsafe due to 'deterioration' in driver behaviour, warns RSA

The RSA’s appearance before PAC comes against the backdrop of a surge in fatalities and serious injuries on Irish roads in the last two years.

Irish roads are unsafe because of an “unprecedented deterioriation of behaviours”, the Road Safety Authority boss has said amid questions about the rising death toll.

RSA chief executive Sam Waide told the Dáil Public Accounts Committee that he “lives and breathes” road safety but he cannot make other agencies, such as gardaí, do things that are outside “of our statutory remit”.