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
10:30 am
Mr. Con O'Donohue:
We examine trends. With GoSafe we apply weighting in camera deployment, so not only would we examine the 727 zones, we would consider the compliance level within those zones and fatality numbers. If there has been a fatality, we review the number of hours of enforcement put into that zone for following months. When we started the contract we considered rostering on a monthly basis but that has now been changed to a weekly basis in order to give us more flexibility. There is a weighting for new zones and where there have been serious injuries or fatal collisions. These are factored in to ensure that even within those 727 zones, we can prioritise certain areas that need greater enforcement.