Mr. Brendan Walsh:

The RSA provides information into the national vehicle driver file. Assistant commissioner Hilman recently referenced the Garda's wider mobility strategy. Currently gardaí have a personal digital assistant, PDA, handheld device that when they pull a person over they put his or her details in. My understanding is there are 300 of those PDAs operating today but by the end of quarter 2 the plan is that every rank-and-file garda on the roads will be able to access that information to see if, for instance, Brendan Walsh is disqualified from driving there and then, rather than speaking to the person and having to go back and check the data in the station. That information and that technology will be made available to An Garda Síochána.

With regard to whether the RSA should be involved, we can work together with An Garda Síochána to try to find a way to increase the benefit we could add to society.