Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Let me finish. Primarily due to the large number of applications, the competition to fill the 2017 cohort has run into 2018 and will be completed in the first quarter, that is, within the next few weeks. The result is that the 2017 and 2018 vacancies will be filled in 2018, with the appointment of a total of 150 members. That is a reversal of what was happening up to the end of 2016. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív is right, that the level of enforcement fell and that the situation was difficult, but the Garda's commitment to increase numbers by 10% per annum is being kept. We have seen an improvement.

I was interested in Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív's anecdote about being breathalysed three times. Over how many years did that happen?