Motorists could face fee hikes to fund road safety
The Government has been advised to increase driving licence and car testing fees, hike penalties for dangerous road users and expand direct exchequer funding of road safety amid a series of dire financial warnings about the Road Safety Authority (RSA).
A final copy of an external review into the agency, seen by The Irish Times, says there is a “risk of insufficient resources and focus” being allocated to road safety and education.
News in Ireland
- Leaders agree general election will be held in 2024, with a Friday favoured: The three leaders of the Coalition parties agreed on Monday night that the general election would be held this year – but there was no agreement on a date, or on when the election would be called.
- Ryanair says people stuck on its planes for up to 15 hours during Storm Ashley ‘not entitled’ to free water: Ryanair has defended its decision not to offer passengers stuck on its planes for up to 15 hours due to Storm Ashley free bottles of water or any other refreshments because there were “not entitled” to it.
- Politicians not seen to be representing young people’s interests, survey finds: Having been made homeless with her mother once already when she was just nine years old, Sarah Selfati Harte feared the worst a few years ago when the woman who owned the apartment she and her mother lived in said she wanted sell up.
- Ten ‘big moves’ suggested to revitalise Dublin city centre: A Taskforce for Dublin established last May has put forward 10 “big moves” which aim to make the city safer, more welcoming and less run down.
- Weather forecast: It will be mostly dry today with sunny spells along with well scattered showers. Highest temperatures of 12 to 15 degrees in mostly light southwest breezes. Tonight will be dry with clear spells at first though it will turn cloudier from the southwest with the chance of patchy light drizzle towards morning. Lowest temperatures of 4 to 8 degrees.
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The Big Read
- ‘Dealing with parents can be scary’: New teachers on life in today’s classroom: Teachers emigrating due to Ireland’s housing crisis, limited promotional posts in schools and a growing level of paperwork are among the issues that regularly make the news. It might make you wonder why anyone is entering the profession in the first place.
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- ‘Be tax compliant: it’s a lot cheaper’: Get filing your return now: All other things being equal, you’re going to pay less tax in your 2023 Form 11 tax return this year – and less again for your preliminary tax for 2024 – thanks to recent tax cuts. That’s the good news.
Sports
- The trials of Stephen Roche: ‘There are things I’ve done the last few years I’m not proud of’: To get from Nice to Port-Fréjus, where Stephen Roche suggests we first meet, the motorway sweeps up and around the Cote d’Azur, bypassing familiar names such as Sainte-Maxime, St-Raphaël, and Saint-Tropez.
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