The Bill is named for baby Jax, who died in Saoirse Aylward’s womb after a road traffic collision. There is a further important aspect to Jax’s Law, concerning the Minister directing the Road Safety Authority to include these deaths in road traffic statistics. It took four years to obtain a death certificate for baby Mollie and to get her death included in Road Safety Authority statistics for that year. These statistics, which are gathered primarily to improve policymaking, are incomplete unless they include all who died. It should not be left to grieving families to campaign for their babies to be included in road death statistics.

Source: The Irish Times April 06, 2026 16:03 UTC