Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Three of the witnesses have answered this question and I am still not clear on the role of the Department. If, in a given year, in a local authority there are no on-the-spot fines issued, no fines paid, no prosecutions and therefore no convictions, does anyone pick up the phone to the local authority to ask what is going on? Does the Department simply assume this is an operational matter for the local authorities and its job is only to provide them with the statistics?