❓ Ms. Quirk questions the Minister about a $17 million budget cut to the Office of Road Safety, suggesting it's a punishment. The Minister denies this, focusing on punishing speeding and highlighting the potential to reduce road deaths through speed enforcement.
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OFFICE OF ROAD SAFETY — ALLOCATION REDUCTION
I ask a supplementary question. Is the minister saying that the Office of Road Safety’s work is not worth the same amount of money that has been invested in past years? Why is the minister punishing that office by slashing its budget by $17 million? Mr R.F. JOHNSON
I ask a supplementary question. Is the minister saying that the Office of Road Safety’s work is not worth the same amount of money that has been invested in past years? Why is the minister punishing that office by slashing its budget by $17 million? Mr R.F. JOHNSON
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I do not intend to punish anybody, other than those people who speed on our roads and put other people’s lives at risk. They are the only people I want to punish. To make an assumption or a comment that I would want to punish the Office of Road Safety, the Road Safety Council or anybody else is absolutely ludicrous. Quite frankly, it is a bit beneath the member. Let me just say that the Enhanced Speed Enforcement Steering Committee, which was set up — Ms M.M. Quirk : Which you have abolished. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : For goodness sake! The SPEAKER : I have given the member a supplementary question. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Enhanced Speed Enforcement Steering Committee, which was set up within the Road Safety Council under the previous government—I acknowledge that—is doing a great job. It has now reported to me on all of its findings, its investigations and its analyses. I will happily share that information with the member when I have gone through it in detail. Certainly, what it shows to start with, and the advice that I am getting, is that with the right mix of speed cameras and operating hours, we can cut deaths on city roads by about 20 per cent. On rural roads, we could reduce the death toll by as much as 23 per cent. That is a huge saving of lives that are needlessly lost on our roads. That is what I am about and that is what the government is about, and we will do that. We will fund whatever is necessary to try to save the loss of lives on our roads.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: I do not intend to punish anybody, other than those people who speed on our roads and put other people’s lives at risk. They are the only people I want to punish. To make an assumption or a comment that I would want to punish the Office of Road Safety, the Road Safety Council or anybody else is absolutely ludicrous. Quite frankly, it is a bit beneath the member. Let me just say that the Enhanced Speed Enforcement Steering Committee, which was set up — Ms M.M. Quirk : Which you have abolished. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : For goodness sake! The SPEAKER : I have given the member a supplementary question. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Enhanced Speed Enforcement Steering Committee, which was set up within the Road Safety Council under the previous government—I acknowledge that—is doing a great job. It has now reported to me on all of its findings, its investigations and its analyses. I will happily share that information with the member when I have gone through it in detail. Certainly, what it shows to start with, and the advice that I am getting, is that with the right mix of speed cameras and operating hours, we can cut deaths on city roads by about 20 per cent. On rural roads, we could reduce the death toll by as much as 23 per cent. That is a huge saving of lives that are needlessly lost on our roads. That is what I am about and that is what the government is about, and we will do that. We will fund whatever is necessary to try to save the loss of lives on our roads.
I do not intend to punish anybody, other than those people who speed on our roads and put other people’s lives at risk. They are the only people I want to punish. To make an assumption or a comment that I would want to punish the Office of Road Safety, the Road Safety Council or anybody else is absolutely ludicrous. Quite frankly, it is a bit beneath the member. Let me just say that the Enhanced Speed Enforcement Steering Committee, which was set up — Ms M.M. Quirk : Which you have abolished. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : For goodness sake! The SPEAKER : I have given the member a supplementary question. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Enhanced Speed Enforcement Steering Committee, which was set up within the Road Safety Council under the previous government—I acknowledge that—is doing a great job. It has now reported to me on all of its findings, its investigations and its analyses. I will happily share that information with the member when I have gone through it in detail. Certainly, what it shows to start with, and the advice that I am getting, is that with the right mix of speed cameras and operating hours, we can cut deaths on city roads by about 20 per cent. On rural roads, we could reduce the death toll by as much as 23 per cent. That is a huge saving of lives that are needlessly lost on our roads. That is what I am about and that is what the government is about, and we will do that. We will fund whatever is necessary to try to save the loss of lives on our roads.
Ms M.M. Quirk : Which you have abolished. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : For goodness sake! The SPEAKER : I have given the member a supplementary question. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Enhanced Speed Enforcement Steering Committee, which was set up within the Road Safety Council under the previous government—I acknowledge that—is doing a great job. It has now reported to me on all of its findings, its investigations and its analyses. I will happily share that information with the member when I have gone through it in detail. Certainly, what it shows to start with, and the advice that I am getting, is that with the right mix of speed cameras and operating hours, we can cut deaths on city roads by about 20 per cent. On rural roads, we could reduce the death toll by as much as 23 per cent. That is a huge saving of lives that are needlessly lost on our roads. That is what I am about and that is what the government is about, and we will do that. We will fund whatever is necessary to try to save the loss of lives on our roads.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : For goodness sake! The SPEAKER : I have given the member a supplementary question. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Enhanced Speed Enforcement Steering Committee, which was set up within the Road Safety Council under the previous government—I acknowledge that—is doing a great job. It has now reported to me on all of its findings, its investigations and its analyses. I will happily share that information with the member when I have gone through it in detail. Certainly, what it shows to start with, and the advice that I am getting, is that with the right mix of speed cameras and operating hours, we can cut deaths on city roads by about 20 per cent. On rural roads, we could reduce the death toll by as much as 23 per cent. That is a huge saving of lives that are needlessly lost on our roads. That is what I am about and that is what the government is about, and we will do that. We will fund whatever is necessary to try to save the loss of lives on our roads.
The SPEAKER : I have given the member a supplementary question. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Enhanced Speed Enforcement Steering Committee, which was set up within the Road Safety Council under the previous government—I acknowledge that—is doing a great job. It has now reported to me on all of its findings, its investigations and its analyses. I will happily share that information with the member when I have gone through it in detail. Certainly, what it shows to start with, and the advice that I am getting, is that with the right mix of speed cameras and operating hours, we can cut deaths on city roads by about 20 per cent. On rural roads, we could reduce the death toll by as much as 23 per cent. That is a huge saving of lives that are needlessly lost on our roads. That is what I am about and that is what the government is about, and we will do that. We will fund whatever is necessary to try to save the loss of lives on our roads.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Enhanced Speed Enforcement Steering Committee, which was set up within the Road Safety Council under the previous government—I acknowledge that—is doing a great job. It has now reported to me on all of its findings, its investigations and its analyses. I will happily share that information with the member when I have gone through it in detail. Certainly, what it shows to start with, and the advice that I am getting, is that with the right mix of speed cameras and operating hours, we can cut deaths on city roads by about 20 per cent. On rural roads, we could reduce the death toll by as much as 23 per cent. That is a huge saving of lives that are needlessly lost on our roads. That is what I am about and that is what the government is about, and we will do that. We will fund whatever is necessary to try to save the loss of lives on our roads.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: I do not intend to punish anybody, other than those people who speed on our roads and put other people’s lives at risk. They are the only people I want to punish. To make an assumption or a comment that I would want to punish the Office of Road Safety, the Road Safety Council or anybody else is absolutely ludicrous. Quite frankly, it is a bit beneath the member. Let me just say that the Enhanced Speed Enforcement Steering Committee, which was set up — Ms M.M. Quirk : Which you have abolished. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : For goodness sake! The SPEAKER : I have given the member a supplementary question. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Enhanced Speed Enforcement Steering Committee, which was set up within the Road Safety Council under the previous government—I acknowledge that—is doing a great job. It has now reported to me on all of its findings, its investigations and its analyses. I will happily share that information with the member when I have gone through it in detail. Certainly, what it shows to start with, and the advice that I am getting, is that with the right mix of speed cameras and operating hours, we can cut deaths on city roads by about 20 per cent. On rural roads, we could reduce the death toll by as much as 23 per cent. That is a huge saving of lives that are needlessly lost on our roads. That is what I am about and that is what the government is about, and we will do that. We will fund whatever is necessary to try to save the loss of lives on our roads.
I do not intend to punish anybody, other than those people who speed on our roads and put other people’s lives at risk. They are the only people I want to punish. To make an assumption or a comment that I would want to punish the Office of Road Safety, the Road Safety Council or anybody else is absolutely ludicrous. Quite frankly, it is a bit beneath the member. Let me just say that the Enhanced Speed Enforcement Steering Committee, which was set up — Ms M.M. Quirk : Which you have abolished. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : For goodness sake! The SPEAKER : I have given the member a supplementary question. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Enhanced Speed Enforcement Steering Committee, which was set up within the Road Safety Council under the previous government—I acknowledge that—is doing a great job. It has now reported to me on all of its findings, its investigations and its analyses. I will happily share that information with the member when I have gone through it in detail. Certainly, what it shows to start with, and the advice that I am getting, is that with the right mix of speed cameras and operating hours, we can cut deaths on city roads by about 20 per cent. On rural roads, we could reduce the death toll by as much as 23 per cent. That is a huge saving of lives that are needlessly lost on our roads. That is what I am about and that is what the government is about, and we will do that. We will fund whatever is necessary to try to save the loss of lives on our roads.
Ms M.M. Quirk : Which you have abolished. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : For goodness sake! The SPEAKER : I have given the member a supplementary question. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Enhanced Speed Enforcement Steering Committee, which was set up within the Road Safety Council under the previous government—I acknowledge that—is doing a great job. It has now reported to me on all of its findings, its investigations and its analyses. I will happily share that information with the member when I have gone through it in detail. Certainly, what it shows to start with, and the advice that I am getting, is that with the right mix of speed cameras and operating hours, we can cut deaths on city roads by about 20 per cent. On rural roads, we could reduce the death toll by as much as 23 per cent. That is a huge saving of lives that are needlessly lost on our roads. That is what I am about and that is what the government is about, and we will do that. We will fund whatever is necessary to try to save the loss of lives on our roads.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : For goodness sake! The SPEAKER : I have given the member a supplementary question. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Enhanced Speed Enforcement Steering Committee, which was set up within the Road Safety Council under the previous government—I acknowledge that—is doing a great job. It has now reported to me on all of its findings, its investigations and its analyses. I will happily share that information with the member when I have gone through it in detail. Certainly, what it shows to start with, and the advice that I am getting, is that with the right mix of speed cameras and operating hours, we can cut deaths on city roads by about 20 per cent. On rural roads, we could reduce the death toll by as much as 23 per cent. That is a huge saving of lives that are needlessly lost on our roads. That is what I am about and that is what the government is about, and we will do that. We will fund whatever is necessary to try to save the loss of lives on our roads.
The SPEAKER : I have given the member a supplementary question. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Enhanced Speed Enforcement Steering Committee, which was set up within the Road Safety Council under the previous government—I acknowledge that—is doing a great job. It has now reported to me on all of its findings, its investigations and its analyses. I will happily share that information with the member when I have gone through it in detail. Certainly, what it shows to start with, and the advice that I am getting, is that with the right mix of speed cameras and operating hours, we can cut deaths on city roads by about 20 per cent. On rural roads, we could reduce the death toll by as much as 23 per cent. That is a huge saving of lives that are needlessly lost on our roads. That is what I am about and that is what the government is about, and we will do that. We will fund whatever is necessary to try to save the loss of lives on our roads.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : The Enhanced Speed Enforcement Steering Committee, which was set up within the Road Safety Council under the previous government—I acknowledge that—is doing a great job. It has now reported to me on all of its findings, its investigations and its analyses. I will happily share that information with the member when I have gone through it in detail. Certainly, what it shows to start with, and the advice that I am getting, is that with the right mix of speed cameras and operating hours, we can cut deaths on city roads by about 20 per cent. On rural roads, we could reduce the death toll by as much as 23 per cent. That is a huge saving of lives that are needlessly lost on our roads. That is what I am about and that is what the government is about, and we will do that. We will fund whatever is necessary to try to save the loss of lives on our roads.
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