Catherine Murphy
Ceist:
566. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she will provide the total yield earned from each safety camera zone under the Garda safety camera contract to date in 2022, in tabular form. [58000/22]
Amharc ar fhreagra
I have requested the information sought by the Deputy from An Garda Síochána, and will revert to her when this is to hand.
The following deferred reply was received under Standing Order 51.
I refer to Parliamentary Question No. 566 of 22 November 2022 where you asked for: “the total yield earned from each safety camera zone under the Garda safety camera contract to date in 2022, in tabular form. ”
As you will recall, the information you requested was not available at the time, and undertook to contact you again once the information was to hand.
The Garda authorities have provided me with the table in the appendix to this letter, detailing payments for 2022, up to and including December 8. I am further advised that the information is not recorded by zone, instead the offence location is used, and the yield per location.
The Deputy may also be aware that receipts associated with the Safety Camera Contract are collected through the Fixed Charge Processing System. 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.
I trust that this information is of assistance.
