Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have a question about the Criminal Assets Bureau, CAB. It relates to road safety. There is not a town in Ireland where the Garda is not investigating a guy who does not go out to work but who has a big car in the driveway, takes luxury holidays and has a nice watch on his wrist. These people are in every community, unfortunately. They are the scourge of society. An Garda Síochána is heavily on their case, but then we see that, day to day, so much stuff is allowed to slide. This could include owning a dog illegally, committing speeding offences or even switching number plates, which I think happened in one scenario. It is a major frustration for the public. Of course, a great deal of important work is going on, and you cannot go in daily hampering a big investigation that is under way. I can think of many examples, which I will not detail here, where laws are being broken day to day, but there is a direction to ignore that and not to report it because CAB is after the big prize when it comes to the suspect in question. I ask the witnesses to comment on this type of scenario. Are there a certain number of people who are considered to be above the day-to-day road traffic offences?