There are renewed calls for greater Garda enforcement on the roads following deaths of two pedestrians and a motorcyclist over the weekend.
It brings this year's total number of road deaths to 136, compared to 110 this time last year.
There have been various suggestions in recent months about how to improve road safety, including introducing a dedicated module in the secondary school curriculum.
Conor Faughnan, CEO of the Royal Irish Automobile Association, says long-term enforcement is key:
"There's no great mystery to improving road safety in Ireland. We've done it before. There are some fairly elementary and well understood things, but you have to keep doing them. The single biggest one of those is enforcement. There's just a shortage of Gardaí and that really does show up. Road Safety isn't something that you achieve, like you've build a building. You have to achieve it every year. It's more like weeding a garden than designing one".
