Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 May 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána

11:10 am

Mr. Martin Callinan:

My aspiration would be that everybody was compliant, but we are not in a perfect world. We have a role to play and a responsibility to enforce the law as it stands. There may be opportunities for exploring further gantry cameras that could identify vehicles that are off the road. I am sure that would involve additional back-up office equipment to flag those issues. There is a whole raft of possible measures. We discuss these from time to time with our colleagues in interdepartmental meetings, including ways and means of securing the types of compliance Deputy Nolan speaks about.