Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 4 May 2005
324 Ms Shortall asked the Minister for Transport if he will report on his Department’s inspectorate for the haulage industry; the remit of the inspectorate; the number of inspectors in same; the number of inspections carried out in each of the past five years; the number of drivers who have been found to be non-compliant in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14570/05]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe road haulage division of my Department includes an enforcement section that is responsible for the enforcement of operator licensing regimes for both bus and road haulage operators and of drivers' hours rules in the road transport sector.
There are currently nine transport officers engaged full time on enforcement of these rules. Transport officers enforce the rules through roadside checkpoints, in co-operation with the Garda Síochána, and visits to operator premises. Details of the inspections carried out on operators, both at their premises and at the roadside, and the tachograph offences detected in respect of drivers in the past five years are set out in the table below.
|
Year |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
|
Operators Inspected |
4,038 |
2,485 |
3,706 |
4,010 |
4,157 |
|
No. of detected Tachograph Offences by drivers* |
2,924 |
4,226 |
4,298 |
3,436 |
4,502 |
*Figures are not available for the number of drivers who have committed offences; in some cases a driver may have committed a number of offences.
