Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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574. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that have been charged in each county or policing authority area in each crime sector in each of the past five years; and the number of prosecutions that have occurred in each county or policing authority area in each crime sector in each of the past five years. [10950/22]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the administration and management of An Garda Síochána. As Minister, I have no role in these independent functions.

I have requested the relevant information from An Garda Síochána, but as the request covers an expansive stretch of time of 5 years and with the complexities around the nature of the request, I have been advised that it would require a disproportionate amount of time and Garda resources to complete the work. Consequently I am unable to provide the information requested to the Deputy.

In relation to the number of prosecutions, I have made appropriate enquiries and the Courts Service have advised that the data requested by the Deputy is published in the Annual Reports of the Courts Service, which are available online at the following link: 

www.courts.ie/annual-report

I am further advised that information for the 2021 Annual Report has not yet been processed, and will be published later in the year.

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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575. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of speeding checks that have been put in place in each county in each of the past five years; and the number of fines that were imposed in each county for the past five years. [10951/22]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the management and administration of An Garda Síochána, including Garda operations aimed at preventing and detecting crime. As Minister, I have no direct role in these matters.

Since 2010, An Garda Síochána has contributed to making our roads safer through the use of safety cameras, using a service provider ‘GoSafe’ to operate them on its behalf. The primary purpose of safety cameras is to reduce speed related collisions, lessen injuries and save lives. 

For the Deputy's information, attached is the number of GoSafe Monitoring Deployments by county for the period 2017 - 2021.

GoSafe Monitoring Deployments

The Deputy will also find attached a second table that provides a yearly breakdown per Garda division of the number of instances in which a party was issued with a Fixed Charge Notice for the offence of speeding. The Deputy should note that figures are based on incidents which occurred from 01/01/2016 to 24/02/2022 inclusive and is liable to change.

FCNs for Speeding Offences

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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576. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of roadside drink driving checks that have been put in place in each county for each of the past five years; and the number of prosecutions that were imposed in each county in the past five years. [10952/22]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005, the Garda Commissioner is responsible by law for the management and administration of An Garda Síochána, including the enforcement of road traffic legislation. As Minister, I have no direct role in these matters.

The below table, furnished to me by the Garda authorities, provides a yearly breakdown per Garda division of the number of Mandatory Intoxication Testing Checkpoints carried out for each of the past five years.

The below table, furnished to me by the Garda authorities, provides the number of detections for drink-driving offences broken down yearly per Garda division for each of the past five years.

I am further advised that drink-driving detections refer to incidents which have a detection status of ‘Detected’ or ‘Resulted in Proceedings’. I am informed that drug-driving detections are not included in the above figures.