Written answers
Thursday, 8 March 2007
Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
Garda Equipment
5:00 pm
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 133: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of breathalysers and intoxilysers available to An Garda Síochána in each Garda division. [9374/07]
Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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I am informed by the Garda authorities that there are 64 evidential breath testing instruments (intoxilysers) in use in Garda stations and 439 instruments in use for road-side screening (alcometers) which are allocated on a Divisional basis as shown in the following table.
| Division | Alcometers | Intoxilysers |
| Carlow / Kildare | 19 | 3 |
| Cavan / Monaghan | 19 | 3 |
| Clare | 9 | 4 |
| Cork City | 24 | 1 |
| Cork North | 19 | 2 |
| Cork West | 10 | 4 |
| Donegal | 21 | 4 |
| Galway West | 26 | 4 |
| Kerry | 15 | 3 |
| Laois / Offaly | 17 | 3 |
| Limerick | 17 | 3 |
| Longford / Westmeath | 17 | 3 |
| Louth / Meath | 21 | 4 |
| Mayo | 20 | 3 |
| Roscommon / Galway East | 7 | 2 |
| Sligo / Leitrim | 19 | 2 |
| Tipperary | 21 | 3 |
| Waterford / Kilkenny | 22 | 3 |
| Wexford / Wicklow | 15 | 3 |
| DMR North Central | 11 | 1 |
| DMR South Central | 13 | 1 |
| DMR North | 17 | 1 |
| DMR South | 13 | 1 |
| DMR East | 19 | 2 |
| DMR West | 3 | 1 |
| DMR Traffic Corp | 24 | |
| GNTB | 1 | |
| Total | 439 | 64 |
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