Councillor claims there is "too much of a focus" on e-scooter policing, calls for road safety emergency.

Councillor says Ireland accepts the number of road deaths as “inevitable” and calls for road safety to be treated as a national emergency. Road Deaths Ireland corroborates this figure, but An Garda Síochána note 101 deaths in 2026. In her letter, she called for international experts in transport, road safety, and engineering to meet with An Garda Síochána and clinicians working in emergency medicine and rehabilitation. She believed this meeting would allow the Government to “identify the interventions to reduce road deaths. ‘If road safety were a virus, there would be emergency meetings’Cllr.