Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport

Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety

2:00 am

Photo of Pa DalyPa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)

I thank Mr. Quigley very much for coming in. If I had known he was involved in finance in the Courts Service I might have had a few extra questions about Tralee Courthouse and how we could save money by refurbishing the current one rather than moving it to another side of the town.

It is staggering that 81 different types of drugs are detected. Is that in the last year or is it over the last number of years? Either way, if there is anything to get people off the roads and onto public transport, it might be realising there are over 5,900 alcohol detections and 4,348 drug specimens received in the last year alone, and 81 different drug types. There were 174 in 2024 and in the year to date about 125. Are the 5,900 alcohol specimens and the 4,348 drug specimens mutually exclusive or in some cases were both drugs and alcohol involved?

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