Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 90: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of samples provided to the MBRS arising from arrests for drink or drug driving in each of the years from 1999 to date in 2006; the number of these samples certified and analysed in each of these years; the number where the sample was defective, where documentation was inadequate or where the process could not be proceeded with due to a procedural fault; the number of such samples found to be over the legal limit for alcohol concentration or with drugs present in each of these years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2660/06]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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Data relating to the results of the tests carried out by the medical bureau of road safety, in respect of the establishment of the presence of drugs and-or alcohol in samples presented to it by the Garda, are set out in the bureau's annual reports.

The table below sets out the number of samples received by the bureau, the number of samples analysed and certified, the number of samples where certificates did not issue due to a defect in the sample or accompanying documentation, the number of samples which were over the legal limit for alcohol and the number of samples which showed the presence of a drug or drugs each year from 1999 to 2004. Data relating to 2005 and 2006 are not yet available.