Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 April 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. Michael Finn:

I would say 20% to 25%. I am hazarding a guess. I will come back to the Deputy with figures on that. We did not have a massive uptake in respect of people coming in. Many people decided it was something that happened ten years ago. They were fined for not wearing a seat belt, or whatever it was at the time. They did not want to be bothered. Some perhaps were nervous that they we going to end up being named in public or something like that. Many people just did not engage with us. We certainly did write and try to contact and encourage everybody. We admitted it was our mistake and said we would rectify it in the courts and get the fines refunded.

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