Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 July 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras

10:20 am

Ms Noirín O'Sullivan:

Yes. One of the reasons for this is that the positioning of the GoSafe vans is made known to people, while the Gatso vans are used as part of our other enforcement strategy in areas where the GoSafe vans are not deployed and, therefore, the detection rates are much higher. This speaks to the fact that the GoSafe vans are achieving the objective in so far as they are encouraging people to reduce speed.

Looking at the statistics, currently the average compliance rate is 81%. In 100 km/h zones, it is 99%, which is very positive. My colleague Superintendent O'Donohue, who has day-to-day responsibility for the management of the system, will explain the difference in more detail.