Road Traffic Offences Data

Wednesday, 19 December 2018

Ceisteanna (246)

Niamh Smyth

Ceist:

246. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drink driving, driving with a mobile phone and speeding detections made by gardaí nationally by area, county and month in counties Cavan, Meath and Monaghan to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53588/18]

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Freagraí scríofa

Minister for Justice and Equality

I have requested a report from An Garda Síochána in relation to the various statistics sought by the Deputy, and I will provide this information directly to the Deputy on receipt of said report.

The following deferred reply was received under Standing Order 42A

I refer to Parliamentary Question 246 of 19 December 2018, in which the Deputy asked the number of drink driving, driving with a mobile phone and speeding detections made by gardaí nationally by area, county and month in counties Cavan, Meath and Monaghan to date in 2018.

As the Deputy will recall, a report on this matter was requested from An Garda Síochána. The following table, compiled by An Garda Síochána, indicates the number of fixed charge penalty notices issued for speeding, using a mobile phone while driving, drink driving and incidents of driving while intoxicated. The data is broken down by Garda Division and is correct as at 18 December 2018. Please note these figures are provisional, operational and subject to change.

Type	Division	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Total
Speeding fixed charge notices issued	Cavan/Monaghan	122	154	188	238	418	362	378	371	540	534	3,305
Meath	243	278	323	457	611	618	623	664	432	591	4,840
All Divisions	8,235	7,948	8,429	11,439	12,985	11,934	12,366	12,719	12,103	13,124	111,282
Mobile phone fixed charge notices issued	Cavan/Monaghan	76	68	82	100	92	121	83	85	122	142	971
Meath	50	38	12	22	104	57	76	42	99	61	561
All Divisions	1,886	2,074	2,225	3,006	3,058	2,278	2,271	2,647	3,301	3,382	26,128
Drink driving fixed charge notices issued	Cavan/Monaghan	4	5	3	8	5	7	7	3	9	7	58
Meath	3	6	8	5	6	6	3	4	4	2	47
All Divisions	78	109	100	121	125	145	130	125	114	95	1,142
Driving while intoxicated (Incidents)	Cavan/Monaghan	29	23	22	49	34	39	37	31	44	43	351
Meath	26	30	25	24	30	42	34	30	34	36	311
All Divisions	575	595	707	741	833	815	738	759	814	824	7,401

I apologise for the delay in responding, however, I hope this response has been of use to the Deputy .