Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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Question 267: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when the traffic camera roll-out will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42728/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The Garda Commissioner and I signed the contract for an outsourced safety camera network with the preferred service provider in November, 2009 following a tender and evaluation process. In accordance with the provisions of the contract, following the necessary preparatory work, roll-out of the national mobile safety camera network commenced at midnight on 15 November, 2010 and is expected to reach full capacity in early 2011. The cameras will be deployed at locations which have been identified as having a high incidence of speed related collisions. Information on these locations is available on the Garda website www.garda.ie. As well as enforcing vehicle speeds, the cameras will carry out surveys of the speed of vehicles at the locations, so as to ensure that the cameras are deployed where they are most needed. On completion of the roll-out early in 2011, the network will provide 6,000 hours of monitoring and 1,475 hours of surveying per month.

An Garda Síochána will determine the scheduling of the speed monitoring and survey sessions and will oversee the day-to-day running of the project. The service provider will have responsibility for ensuring monitoring and survey sessions are conducted in accordance with those schedules and providing the survey and monitoring data to An Garda Síochána. The selected supplier will also provide the necessary vehicles, monitoring and survey equipment and operating personnel. An Garda Síochána will issue fixed charge notices to speeding drivers who are detected and pursue any court prosecutions undertaken. The service provider will be paid according to the level of service provided. The number of speeding drivers detected by the service provider will have no effect on the level of payment. The purpose of the contract is to reduce speed, and so increase road safety, not to generate revenue either for the State or the service provider.