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

I have had detailed discussions with the Commissioner about this whole issue. A key question has been the information flow to the Department regarding the scale of the matter. As I have explained, the audit was under way and the Garda was responding to the letter it had received from the Medical Bureau of Road Safety. The issue had emerged and concerns were raised also by individuals. The Garda decided it would carry out audits on the MAT data for the last year in June 2016 and I waited. In June 2016 it informed me of the work it had been doing and was now completing a national audit - as it said - up to the second quarter of this year.

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