Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin

9:00 am

Photo of Jack ChambersJack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In his overview, Mr. O'Sullivan said how under section 4 of the Road Traffic Act 2010, MAT checkpoints were introduced and how during the period pre-2009 most MAT checkpoints were not electronically recorded and that some local managers developed a practice of recording these under the generic category, which I believe we addressed these before, of "Attention and Complaints". This outlines that there was no process of data collection or recording. How did the Road Safety Authority, RSA, then publish figures for breath-tested MATs for 2007 and 2008? The RSA said there was 489,029 tests in 2007 and 563,115 tests in 2008. What was the process of data collection for those MAT checkpoints if the report says that they were not being recorded?

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