Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

This issue concerns the fixed charge penalty points. When serious allegations were made last September that some gardaí had improperly cancelled fixed charge notices in respect of road traffic offences, the Minister for Justice and Equality asked the Garda Commissioner to investigate those allegations and the Garda Commissioner, in turn, had an investigation conducted which produced a report that has been published by the Minister for Justice and Equality.

It is important that we consider what we are discussing. For most people, their only contact with gardaí and enforcement of the law is likely to be regarding a road traffic offence, caught on camera speeding or doing something that breaches road traffic laws. They may have been stopped by a garda.

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