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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: ...the committee, I am pleased to welcome from An Garda Síochána Commissioner Drew Harris and Assistant Commissioner Paula Hilman. I will read a note on privilege. Witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
...with which they go about their business, particularly servicing, to make sure that work is properly and quickly done. We are a big customer and a priority customer as well. We do not tolerate long waits for vehicles easily either. We realise, and certainly fleet managers realise, that a Garda vehicle is of no use sitting and waiting for parts or for work to be done. Those vehicles of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Equally, if they know the car is going to fail, they do not want to spend the money on making it safe. I have more of an issue with the people who persistently do not go and whose NCT is a long time out of date, and they just kind of ignore it. There seems to be quite a large volume of vehicles in the NCT database that have never been tested or have been tested a very long time ago. Maybe...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: A van will regularly go into an area, so for as long as there are lots of detections there, it is clear the message is not sinking in enough. Eventually, though, the numbers will drop.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Mr. Drew Harris: As an organic product, cannabis stays in people’s systems for a long time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: And it has effects on driving for a long time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Martin Kenny: ...at that stage. The test is just detecting the legacy of something that happened well in the past. Is discretion applied? Are there issues? Does the test involve any measurement or estimate of how long before being detected the person had taken the drug?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Cathal Crowe: .... To build on a point from earlier, it is essential for the force that there be a full definition of what this involves and how it works in a practical sense. I would say that someone who has long since passed out from Templemore probably needs some clarity from Garda headquarters in order that this aspect does not become a stick with which to beat the force. To follow on from what...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
...at this stage. As well as enforcement in respect of scramblers, part of that project is looking at whether private land could be used for that. We are looking at how we can resolve this long term.