Splitting up Road Safety Authority 'a good soundbite' but better to 'reform it from within', minister says
Oireachtas transport committee chair expressed concern about the number of gardaí working in roads policing, with recent figures suggesting the number of such gardaí has fallen by 40% since 2009. Picture. Robbie Reynolds
Splitting up the Road Safety Authority (RSA) would be “fine and dandy” and a “good soundbite”, but it would be better to reform the organisation from within, the roads safety minister has said.
At the Oireachtas transport committee, Sean Canney said he had concluded the quickest way was to reform the approach of the RSA, and he would be concerned at how long it would take to put a new structure in place if it was split up.
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