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

Mr. Seán Quigley:

The bureau exclusively deals with drug and alcohol testing. We do not do any other work even though we are based on the UCD campus. The staff are UCD employees.

They are effectively seconded to the bureau. UCD pays their salaries and we recoup those salaries. There is a long-standing arrangement, originally going back to 1968, but there is a 27-year agreement in place with UCD. It is effectively a shared service arrangement and it works very well because, on the campus, if we have a vacancy, we have access to a pool of staff. It also benefits the staff in the bureau from a career point of view. The building-----

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