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Garda Equipment.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 8 March 2007

Thursday, 8 March 2007

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Bernard J. Durkan

Ceist:

133 Mr. Durkan asked 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]

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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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