Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 September 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Road Safety: Discussion

Photo of Duncan SmithDuncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

It is a long meeting and we will all get a chance. As regards the mandatory drug testing coming through, there has been mandatory alcohol testing for some time. On the random testing side of things, there was a period in my life when I could not turn a corner without hitting a random Breathalyser test. Some people say the checkpoints are always in the same places but that was not the case in my experience. They were everywhere. I was stopped all over the country. I could not stop hitting the checkpoints, which was brilliant. Has that testing decreased? Has the number of random alcohol testing spots decreased in recent years? Is random drug testing also carried out? If so, to what extent? If not, will it be implemented in the same way as random alcohol testing?

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