Minister for Transport Martin Cullen has told the Road Safety Authority to come up with a list of additional road safety measures which he will consider in the autumn.
The authority, which has met four times since May, is to consider measures employed in a number of other countries and will come up with the list of options for Cullen to choose from in September.
The new measures will be in addition to those already contained in the Road Traffic Bill.
The Bill, which focuses on drink driving and speeding, is passing through its final stages in the Dáil this week.
However, last week road death figures passed 200, about 20 higher than the same time last year.
"The minister has asked the Road Safety Authority to look at a number of areas and come back with proposals for him in the autumn," a Department spokeswoman said. "He wants to look at road safety, where we go after the Road Traffic Bill and see what is done in other countries," she added.
The spokeswoman said the authority would consider "everything" in, including a list of proposals presented by the European road safety watchdog at the weekend.
The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) sent the wish-list in a memorandum to the Finnish government, which took over the presidency of the European Union on Saturday.
The list includes the use of lights by motorists during daylight hours, the mandatory retrofitting of blindspot mirrors on trucks across the union, and the widespread use of technology to save lives on the roads.
Ellen Townsend of the ETSC said that because of Finland's higher-than-average safety record, there was a "real chance for the country to take a leadership role in several areas of road safety".
The EU is unlikely to meet its target to reduce road deaths by 50 per cent by 2010, reaching only a 13 per cent reduction so far.
The ETSC claims that if motorists were forced put on their lights during the day, as in Scandanavian countries, it could lead to a reduction in road deaths across the EU of 2,800 deaths annually.
The group also wants Finland to push for a European Commission directive forcing truckers to fit mirrors to their vehicles to eliminate blind spots.
Blind spots have been blamed by Irish coroners on several occasions for the deaths of cyclists and pedestrians.
Under a previous EU directive the fitting of "cyclops" mirrors to all heavy goods vehicles becomes compulsory in January 2007 for new vehicles.
The ETSC also pushed in its memorandum for the increased use of technology including "alcohol interlocks".
These devices require a driver to take a breath test before starting the car and, if he or she fails the test, automatically lock the car's ignition.
It was introduced as part of a rehabilitation pilot programme for drink drivers in Finland last summer and has also been piloted in the UK.
Brian Farrell of the RSA said they would favour any measure to cut road deaths but added the "fundamental issues" must be tackled first.
He said the "main killer behaviours" were being targetted in the Road Traffic Bill but added the RSA was in favour of the introduction of alcohol interlocks.
"The pilot programme in the UK does appear to be successful. This is definately something that we should look at," he said.
