Mr. Michael Finn:

It was never a desire within Garda regions to compete with each other or to inflate figures such that one region would look better than another in terms of breath tests. Our focus was always on saving lives on the road, arresting people for drink driving and carrying out checkpoints, which reassure the public and the law abiding motorist that we are enforcing the law. I can honestly say there was never a competition between regions or chief superintendents in terms of the number of breath tests recorded.