Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This was primarily dealt with by the traffic division. The head of it at the time was, I think, Assistant Commissioner Twomey, now it is Assistant Commissioner Finn and previously it was Assistant Commissioner O'Mahony, and they were doing a number of different jobs in An Garda Síochána. The main people I had an opportunity to discuss this with were at the ministerial meetings we held on transport where these issues obviously were on the agenda regularly in terms of road safety. The Road Safety Authority attended there. That was the primary place where I had the opportunity to be part of a discussion on these issues. In terms of the Garda Commissioner, I had had the detailed report from her back in May 2015. That was the contact I had. The more recent contact was from the assistant commissioner responsible for traffic to my Secretary General. The first time I heard this was at the press conference and the first time my Department heard this was last week.

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