Declan Breathnach (Louth, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Earlier today and yesterday, the Taoiseach said, as the Tánaiste has indicated this evening, that all the checks and balances are now in place. To me, that means, de facto, that the Garda authorities know the cause of the problem and that it must be known by the Tánaiste, particularly in respect of the breathalyser cases. A child in sixth class in school would tell us that the population of this country is 5 million. With the number of breathalyser kits that appear to have been used, every adult in the country would have been breathalysed. It just does not bear thinking how farcical this situation is. I would like the Tánaiste to give her view on the cause for the inordinate numbers of breathalyser kits. Clearly, she is at the coalface of this problem and has information that many in this House do not possess. From speaking to members of the public in recent days and, particularly, coming to this House today, the word is that this country has not changed in 60 years. It is incumbent on the Tánaiste to give her opinion as to why the PULSE system was not operating correctly or why those figures were recorded.

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