(1) A body called the Road Safety Council is established.

(2) The Council's functions are ¾

(a) to identify measures to ¾

(i) improve the safety of roads in the State; and

(ii) reduce the deaths of people, the injuries to people and the damage to property, resulting from incidents occurring on roads in the State;

(b) to recommend to relevant bodies and persons the action that should be taken to implement such measures;

(c) to co-ordinate the implementation of any such measures by relevant bodies and persons;

(d) to evaluate and monitor the effectiveness of any such measures;

(e) to evaluate and monitor the safety of roads in the State; and

(f) to recommend to the Minister how moneys standing to the credit of the Road Trauma Trust Fund should be spent to implement such measures and to facilitate the Council's functions.

[Section 9 inserted by No. 76 of 1996 s.5.]