With road engineers being unable to access data deemed crucial for road safety, Green Party TD Marc Ó Cathasaigh has called for the RSA to be brought before the Public Accounts Committee
The Green Party's chief whip has called for the Road Safety Authority to be brought before the Public Accounts Committee , following details revealed on Thursday about a GDPR issue that has resulted in up-to-date data on road traffic collisions not being available to road engineering teams in local councils.
At that point the updates to the map ceased. In November 2023 - with the GDPR issue still outstanding - the map containing the old data was also removed. Speaking on Prime Time on Thursday night, the CEO of RSA, Sam Waide, said"up until November 2023, we were sharing the key variables." The data provided varied in the level of detail, with the September data containing information on fatal and serious collisions only.
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