GoSafe hearings a ’waste of money’

A judge yesterday told a group of speed camera van staff it would be a total waste of time and public money for them to return to the district court until a High Court challenge to the system is ruled upon.

At Ennis District Court yesterday, 18 motorists answered speeding summons from Inspector John McDonald on behalf of the Garda Fixed Charge Processing Unit.

The unit processes speeding prosecutions from detections made by the 50 or so speed camera vans operated by the privately owned GoSafe consortium.