Dáil Éireann Debate, Friday - 16 September 2016
59. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 228 to provide a complete breakdown of the way and to whom the receipts generated from the road safety camera contract are distributed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24854/16]
Amharc ar fhreagraAs I indicated to the Deputy in my post-correspondence reply to his Parliamentary Question of 31 May 2016 referred to above, payments under the Safety Camera Contract from 2010 to end May 2016 are as follows:
Payments to Go Safe
|
2010 € |
2011 € |
2012 € |
2013 € |
2014 € |
2015 € |
2016 to date € |
|
228,494 |
15,842,378 |
15,613,641 |
17,036,733 |
17,226,130 |
17,278,953 |
4,724,939 |
Receipts associated with the Safety Camera Contract are collected through the Fixed Charge Processing System and are contained in the table below:
Receipts generated from the Road Safety Camera Contract
|
2010 € |
2011 € |
2012 € |
2013 € |
2014 € |
2015 € |
2016 to date € |
|
64,080 |
7,376,800 |
4,613,360 |
4,383,880 |
6,584,880 |
7,521,400 |
2,144,720 |
The company operating the Safety Camera Contract, Go Safe, has no role in collection of these payments and is itself paid on the basis of hours of monitoring, with the number of detections having no bearing on the payments it receives.
In line with the sanction from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, receipts generated through the Garda Fixed Charge Processing System from the Safety Camera Contract are taken into the Garda Vote as Appropriations-in-Aid to fund the operation of the Contract.
