Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána

9:00 am

Mr. Michael Finn:

We were not recording it as a specific offence. New legislation for mandatory alcohol testing and dual testing was going to come in in 2010, so in 2009, when we were upgrading our IT package, we put in specific data fields so we could measure our checkpoints or breath-tests. That came in in 2009, but I use data from 2011 because, in 2011, the Medical Bureau of Road Safety brought all of its breath-testing devices back in for recalibration to cater for the new dual-standard of the specified drivers. I was able to draw a line in the sand after receiving that from the Medical Bureau of Road safety and say that I could measure from there forward.

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