Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 January 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System
12:40 pm
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I take that point but I am specifically talking about the multiple occasions. Let us take the Commissioner's example of the person with the bees. I do not mean to trivialise it but that person was speeding, they were breaking the law. They might have had to rush home but, ultimately, the life of a person is obviously more important than the life of the livestock or of the bees. If the gardaí decide, with supporting documentation, to apply discretion in that instance, fair enough, that is a judgment call, but if that person - I am not saying they did - came in contact with a garda again, surely it would be a bit much for the garda to apply discretion to the same person twice, if he was speeding and rushing back to deal with the bees again or whatever. That is the point I am trying to make. It is about the multiple occasions.
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