Ivor Callely (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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The road haulage division of my Department includes an enforcement section that is responsible for the enforcement of operator licensing regimes for both bus and road haulage operators and of drivers' hours rules in the road transport sector.

There are currently nine transport officers engaged full time on enforcement of these rules. Transport officers enforce the rules through roadside checkpoints, in co-operation with the Garda Síochána, and visits to operator premises. Details of the inspections carried out on operators, both at their premises and at the roadside, and the tachograph offences detected in respect of drivers in the past five years are set out in the table below.