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[Article] Safety council chief seeks funds after five die on roads

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21-09-2004 3:24am

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Safety council chief seeks funds after five die on roads
From:ireland.com
Monday, 20th September, 2004

The chairman of the National Safety Council has called for a more structured investment in road safety in December's Budget as the number of traffic fatalities continues to rise. Joe Humphreys reports.

Five people were killed on roads in the Republic over the weekend and three in the North, including a motorcylist from Cavan.

Mr Eddie Shaw criticised the way in which road safety was funded on a "cash-flow basis", saying "multiannual budgeting" was called for instead. "We need to see road safety as an investment programme in the Budget where the benefits that flow in terms of the reduction in demand for accident and emergency and the use of hospital beds is quantified as one of the benefits in budgetary terms against the expenditure that takes place."

Speaking on RTÉ Radio's This Week yesterday, Mr Shaw also said there was "clearly a lack of support" within Government for the efforts of the Minister for Transport, Mr Brennan, to deliver extra resources for road safety. "If road safety, and traffic policing, was given the same priority in the Department of Justice, and around the Cabinet table, that the Minister for Transport has given road safety in his Department, we would not be having this discussion."

Five people were killed in road accidents in the Republic over the weekend, bringing to 287 the number of casualties this year. This is an increase of about 40 over the same period in 2003.

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