The Government has promised more resources for the gardaí to carry out road traffic duties.
The Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell, also says there will be a new campaign to crack down on drink and dangerous driving over the coming months.
Mr McDowell said hundreds of gardaí would be transferred to traffic duty over a two-year period.
The minister was speaking after a meeting of interested lobbies when he also said that late night revellers who drink or drug drive would be targeted by undercover gardaí.
The emergency summit was held in Dublin today to discuss the rising death toll on Ireland's roads.
The Minister for Transport, Seamus Brennan, called the meeting earlier this month after 11 people died in crashes in a single weekend.
The summit was attended by Mr McDowell, Mr Brennan and the Garda Commissioner, Noel Conroy.
Mr Brennan was also expected to ask the Garda Síochana to concentrate speed traps on rural accident blackspots instead of built-up urban areas.
Representatives from the National Safety Council, the Medical Bureau of Road Safety and the National Roads Authority were also present.
The Automobile Association, the National Safety Council and the Irish Insurance Federation afterwards described the Government's commitments on road safety as encouraging.
