Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The point is that all the annual tests produce the finding that 2.2% of buses are defective or dangerous.

Thankfully, the roadside test has a much higher volume at 4.3%. As such, the targeting is actually working very successfully in that twice as many cowboys are being caught. Is that not it, really? The question is, therefore, about the scale of that and the number of buses that are actually stopped on the road where these issues are then gone through. It has been successful and there is a significant outcome, but the authority's rate is very low. It is just a fact and I do not necessarily mean it as a criticism.