Sandra McLellan (Cork East, Sinn Fein)
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Question 375: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecution cases for speeding that have been brought in front of Mallow District Court, Kanturk District Court, Macroom District Court and Fermoy District court, County Cork, on the basis of evidence obtained by mobile speed detection vans from 1 January 2011 to 1 October 2011, inclusive; and the number of these cases in each of Mallow District Court, Kanturk District Court, Macroom District Court and Fermoy District Court that have been dismissed or struck out. [29630/11]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Under the provisions of the Courts Service Act 1998, the management and administration of the courts, including responsibility for maintaining and publishing court statistics, is a function of the Courts Service. However, in order to be of assistance to the Deputy, I have had inquiries made and, while the Courts Service has informed me that it is not possible to provide statistics solely relating to those speeding offences detected by mobile speed detection vans, it has provided information as follows.

Table 1 below sets out details of the number of camera speeding offences from 1 January, 2011 to 1 October, 2011, which includes detections by mobile speed detection vans and other detections, such as those by gardaí using hand held devices.

Table 2 below sets out details of speeding offences based on non-camera evidence from 1 January, 2011 to 1 October, 2011.

Table 1

Table 2

*Macroom District Court was closed for refurbishment from 10 November, 2010 to 3 May, 2011 and court business transferred to Bandon District Court for that period.

**Kanturk District Court area was amalgamated with Mallow District Court area on 1 September, 2010 and all court business was dealt with at Mallow District Court.