Results 221-240 of 654 for speaker:Michael Murphy
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: The staff working in the laboratory are employed by UCD.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: And UCD is responsible for the hiring and recruitment of those staff.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: These are fully qualified. I know the bureau is operating to ISO 17025. The staff have been through their educational pathways and so on. These are not trainees for want of a better word.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: Within that space, if that is the right word, in UCD, they are not doing also other types of analysis of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: -----food, medical devices or the pharma sector. It is a dedicated laboratory-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: -----and is operated under, for want of a better term, a service-level agreement with UCD.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: Did Mr. Quigley say that was a 27-year agreement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: Was there some reference to the bureau being involved in supplying equipment? Could Mr. Quigley explain that to me? Was that mentioned in his opening statement? I refer to the provision of equipment to the Garda.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: Is that from a point of view of calibration?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: Measurements of uncertainty and all of that. They are calibrated every year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: Does the bureau have a calibration team or is that subcontracted as well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: The bureau has a calibration team on the road visiting every Garda station and checking the equipment because, as part of ISO 17025, all the equipment has to be properly calibrated. Is the actual equipment gardaí use at the side of the road disposable or reusable?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: That is okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: In terms of the methodologies used for testing, are they similar to methodologies that are used - I presume they are ISO methods - throughout the European Union? Is there a consistency in the types of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: That is coming to my next point. Mr. Quigley mentioned the two-week turnaround for an alcohol result, or the certification of an alcohol result, as well as a 74-day turnaround. Is that similar to turnaround times in other European districts or countries?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: My key question then is whether Mr. Quigley feels that, as chair, he will have the adequate resources and capacity to deal with samples in a timely manner. I notice that there are on average about 113 or 114 alcohol samples per week, and less in the context of drugs. However, I presume there can be peaks and so on. Is Mr. Quigley happy that, as chair of the board, he will have the adequate...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: My final question is around the trends that are emerging. Bearing in mind that Mr. Quigley is talking to policymakers and legislators here today, is there any message he would like to give us based on the trends he sees emerging in drink-driving and drug-driving?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: Mr. Quigley mentioning collaboration has prompted me to ask one additional question. In his role as chair designate, when was the last time Mr. Quigley sat down in a room with the representatives from the RSA and An Garda Síochána and officials from the Department of Transport on the topic of road safety?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: I thank Mr. Quigley. I do not know whether Deputy Daly would like to come back in again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (24 Sep 2025)
Michael Murphy: To conclude, I thank Mr. Quigley for coming in today and assisting the committee in terms of this important matter. I acknowledge his important work and that of the entire team at the bureau. The meeting now stands adjourned until 9.30 a.m. on 8 October when the committee will meet again in public session.