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THE NEW CHIEF Executive of the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has been confirmed as Sam Waide.
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RSA Ireland / Twitter / Twitter
The appointment comes after Moyagh Murdock announced her resignation from the role in January to take up a new position as chief executive with the insurance industry group, Insurance Ireland.
Murdock had worked as the chief executive for the state agency for the past six years as the RSA campaigned to reduce the number of deaths on Irish roads.
Chairperson of the RSA Liz O’Donnell confirmed the appointment of Sam Waide in a statement this evening.
Waide currently holds the position of Executive Director of Operations and Board Member of the Business Services Organisation within Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care Service.
He has been in this position since June 2014 and is responsible for over 600 staff and contractors.
Prior to his current position, Waide’s career has spanned private and public sectors in the UK and Ireland where he has held roles with BMW Group, PWC Consulting, Publicis Sapient Global Markets and BAE Systems UK.
Waide holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from University of Ulster and a Master’s in Engineering and Business Management from University of Warwick.
As CEO, Waide will be based at the RSA headquarters in and will transition to his position in September of this year.
“Both the Board and I are delighted to welcome Sam to the RSA and wish him every success in his position as CEO,” O’Donnell said.
“The Board and I wish to acknowledge again the important contribution Moyagh Murdock has made to the work of the RSA during her six years as CEO,” she said.
“Moyagh certainly enhanced the reputation of the RSA both in Ireland and internationally and she leaves the RSA pointed on a strong positive trajectory for furhter improvements in road safety. We wish her all the very best in her new position with Insurance Ireland.”
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It would be more in his line to make it a law that medical students who qualify in Ireland to remain working in Ireland for at least three years after qualifying.
@Laura McCarthy: Why? If they financed their own education, then they can do what they like, right?
@Laura McCarthy: a friend of mine, who was in international student doing medicine, wanted to work as a doctor in Ireland after she graduated but couldn’t find a place. Our medical schools are producing more doctors than there are graduate training places in the hospitals. That would need to be fixed, rather than mandating compulsory service
@David Corrigan: yeah, they pay for themselves, because €16,000 covers the cost of educating a medical student.
@Laura McCarthy: Who do you think pays for their education then?
@David Corrigan: Is that a serious question? Why do you think the Minsiter for Higher Education Simon Harris is in this article? It’s the tax payers who pay for students in this country. The €16,000 wouldn’t even keep the lights on.
@Laura McCarthy: When did all this happen? Does the tax payers pay for student rent, meals, bus/car travel, phones etc?
When I went to college, it was financed by my father and myself. I don’t recall getting anything for free.
@David Corrigan: It must have been a commerce course you did by the sounds of it….
@David Corrigan: It must have been a commerce and economics course you did by the sounds of it….
@Laura McCarthy: So you can’t answer the question? I’ll ask you again. How is it free when the parent and person going to college has to pay for all the items I listed and college fees?
If you can’t answer that, then please just admit it.
@David Corrigan: I will answer a question with a question – “you don’t recall getting anything for free” – what did you or your father pay your lecturers per hour? What was the overall esb bill? What were the local authority contributions? What were the fees for services, cleaning, upkeep of the college? Will you jog on now and don’t be making silly arguments.
@Laura McCarthy: The true cost is the €55k that non-EU students pay. The €16K is a subsidised figure.
@Sean: agreed
@Laura McCarthy: Assuming 4 students sharing an apartment. Rent, food, travel and phone comes to about €1250 per month. Let’s assume college fees of €3000 which is pretty standard. Total cost to me as a parent for a 24 week (6 month) college year is about €10,500. That works out as €42,000 over 4 years.
That number after the € symbol is not 0 Laura. Education is not free to a parent or the student working in a part time job.
@David Corrigan: the education is free, the costs of getting educated are not. By the by, would they not have a phone and not have to eat even if they were living at home.
@Laura McCarthy: Would that apply to medical graduates only, or to all graduates where there is a shortage? There’s a significant risk that the bad working conditions for non – consultant doctors would worsen if their employers know that they have no choice but to stay. As soon as the 3 years are up, the newly free doctors are out of here.
@Laura McCarthy: As colleges are partly funded by the tax payer, then your taxes pay for the running of the schools.
An old report so costs would have increased since 2017. The bottom line is that nothing is free in Ireland when it comes to education. It is as simple and as black & white as that.
@Mickey Finn: Good point.
@Laura McCarthy: Here is a thought – make Irish medical graduates want to stay in Ireland?
@ChronicAnxiety: why oh why would they want to stay in Ireland…with no idea of their rosters unless two weeks in advance so cannot plan their lives….no further training to progress….less wages than elsewhere….no wonder they leave….last year the bulk of doctors from College of Surgeons went abroad and you cannot blame them
@Laura McCarthy: ah yes, indentured servitude, that’ll do wonders for a workforce with low morale pay and conditions. Good idea!
It’s going to make medicine even more elitist. Never mind 70% of the colleges are international student. There’ll be less and less Irish medical student and Irish doctors.
The number of doctors going through medical school should not be reliant on loans from a commercial bank. Given that we have a shortage of doctors anyway perhaps the government should take it upon themselves to ensure that enough people, from all backgrounds, are able to choose this profession.
@Pat Forster: It’s not just that. It’s reliant on a whole range of factors, e.g., Pay and conditions in Ireland, pay and conditions abroad, individual ambition, parental and societal pressure, college places funded by government, ability of colleges to take more students, training places available in hospitals, overall spending on the hospital system. It’s not that this government shouldn’t try to improve things, it’s just unlikely they’ll be successful during their time in office.
Such short term thinking by the banks. This type of loan should also be available to the middle class 3rd level undergraduates who are not eligible for Susi grants but who need financial support.
Banks who give loans to college students and then require immediate repayment do not understand the long term investment potential. Building bank loyalty can start early, if you give a successful student loan that does not require first monthly repayment until 6 months after you graduate, guess where they will more likely take out a car loan, a mortgage, etc.
Banks are really missing out by dropping this type of a loan for medical students as well as not providing robust and realistic student loans for 3rd level students.
@Seeking Truth: You have a point, I’ve been using BoI my entire life because if you opened a student account with them back in 1985, you got a free Fleetwood Mac tape. I don’t even like Fleetwood Mac that much.
Wow thats how much it costs to study medicine in Ireland!? We really are gradually tearing apart the only infrastructures that were working for us, namely education and policing (as opposed to housing and transport with Healthcare somewhere in there). Anyway the exclusion and inaccessibility will evolve and maintain social gaps for many decades to come. Well done Irish people! Keep voting LOL!
I’m disappointed in that Wally simon harris.
I don’t care if simon is disappointed – we need action
Bobsheets should be making it easier to get into medical training, its one of the few REAL jobs worth doing….
Why not start a state student loan facility for all 3rd level students? I know when the time comes I’ll struggle to help my children to go to college but also we won’t qualify for supports. A 3rd level degree increases your earning potential so why not lend students the money with a deferred pay off and low interest rate. I had a student loan for my final year at college in order to move out of the family home. It meant when other were travelling the world for a gap year I had to knuckle down and get a job. That’s reality.
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