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
Mr. Michael Finn:
I am familiar with the process with the Medical Bureau for Road Safety. It is providing new equipment. The Dragers we have are over ten years old. A decade in the technology world means they are totally obsolete. Undoubtedly, we must replace them. The Medical Bureau for Road Safety supplies the equipment to us. It owns them and we use them. Certainly, what has happened in recent times has caused us to go back to the bureau and use the learning we have acquired from that because we do not want it to happen again. We have asked the Medical Bureau for Road Safety to change the specifications in some regards so we can prevent what we are dealing with today from recurring. I was not aware that it will set it back two years. That is not my understanding of the current position. The devices have gone out to tender and that tender process is being re-examined. I am not aware that it will kick it back two years-----
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