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. Dónall Ó Cualáin:

With regard to the checkpoints and why certain information may have been recorded and why they might differ from the ordinary checkpoint where somebody might be stopped for not having tax or whatever else, it is clear from the statutory requirement that this must be a random system. For example, if one were to state that one stopped five cars at a given checkpoint, that might be the absolute truth but they are not the only five cars that passed through because if they were one could be questioned on the random element of how one selected people to be stopped. That might have been part of the reason that this piece of information was recorded, to show that more cars went through than were stopped for the purpose of breathalysing. That is-----

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