Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will be brief. We heard on "Morning Ireland" this morning that the Medical Bureau of Road Safety audited 200 breath test units, which the Garda figures showed to have done over 400,000 tests. The units had actually only done 200,000 tests. This was in August 2015. The bureau immediately contacted the Garda to tell it there was a problem with the reporting. It was, however, ten months later before the Garda contacted the Department and told it there was no issue with mandatory alcohol testing, MAT, data checks in this regard. Has the Tánaiste asked the Commissioner to explain why it took An Garda Síochána ten months to contact the Department? If the Tánaiste has not asked this, then why not?

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