‘No court authority for Go Safe vans staff’

A district court judge yesterday ruled that Go Safe employees don’t have the required authority to help prosecute speeding cases in the district court.

The ruling by Judge Patrick Durcan in the test case before Ennis District Court is to spark a fresh High Court challenge to the legislation around the controversial system of a privately owned firm being involved in the prosecution of speeding motorists across the country.

The contract is worth around €17m per year to the Go Safe consortium and the works involve the deployment of 50 speed camera vans operated by Go Safe employees at various locations across the country.