439 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Transport, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 481 of 16 December 2003 and 419 of 3 February 2004 which confirmed respectively that whereas 466 pedestrian fatalities occurred on roads here for each of the years 1998 to 2002 no third party fatalities arose from aircraft crashes here during the very same period, if the €421,000 expended on the ERM report relating to purported public safety in the vicinity of airports here was a waste of taxpayers’ moneys and that such scarce moneys would have been far better used for example on road safety measures relating to pedestrian safety or even employing more driver testers to help reduce the massive numbers of drivers with provisional licences on roads here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5394/06]

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439 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Transport, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 481 of 16 December 2003 and 419 of 3 February 2004 which confirmed respectively that whereas 466 pedestrian fatalities occurred on roads here for each of the years 1998 to 2002 no third party fatalities arose from aircraft crashes here during the very same period, if the €421,000 expended on the ERM report relating to purported public safety in the vicinity of airports here was a waste of taxpayers’ moneys and that such scarce moneys would have been far better used for example on road safety measures relating to pedestrian safety or even employing more driver testers to help reduce the massive numbers of drivers with provisional licences on roads here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5394/06]

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