Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 June 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority

9:30 am

Ms Sarah O’Connor:

The Medical Bureau of Road Safety has informed us about what it is seeing at trend level. It is capturing more drug tests from the Garda. Young people caught under the influence of drugs are more drugged and often under the influence of multiple drugs. That is of great concern. We are not happy that the drug ads we have at the moment are good enough, and that is why there is a new one coming in December. We have had extensive conversations with the Department because we really believed we needed that. I suppose-----