Pádraig O'Sullivan (Cork North-Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I hope going forward that gardaí or the RSA would be provided with additional technologies to detect people. It is something that, going forward, is going to become a normal part of road safety.

I have a second issue that I raised last week with the Garda Síochána witnesses. We all recognise that everybody has the right to protest. The Garda representatives did not have a figure for me last week. There are many protests and different types of protests. The majority of them, let us be fair, are safe and people are out for the right motivation, but some of them are not so safe. Is there any idea what these protests actually cost the Department of justice every year? I point to the particularly violent ones that we saw during the Covid-19 years and so on. Is there any idea of what the cost of those is annually?