Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am agnostic on the question of who should look into it. If the cost per life saved is €1 million, and that is agreeable, so be it. It is difficult to put a price on it. In the case of the cancer drug nivolumab, the cost per life saved is €50,000, unless one goes on the Joe Duffy show to harass politicians for six months and get it approved. If it is more than that, then that is fine. Maybe we should write to the justice committee or the transport committee, or both. I presume there is a metric within An Garda Síochána, which runs speed checks, to see what the costs are there. We could find out how many are being done. Of course we hope the figures will be accurate. We need to be able to compare the position here with international best practice. If we find that the amount of money being spent here is in line with how much these things tend to cost, there will be no problem at all. How does one strike a figure of €1.2 million a month? What is it based on? That is all. It is fine. Maybe we could drop a note to the justice and transport committees to ask them to look at this to ascertain whether it represents value for money, whether they are happy with the cost per life saved and that kind of thing.