‘Discipline gardaí for falsifying test figures’

The Taoiseach has called for gardaí found guilty of falsifying breath test figures to face disciplinary action amid fresh calls for Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan to be sacked.

Leo Varadkar made his comments after an internal Garda report found officers exaggerated the number of breath tests carried out by 1.45m over an eight-year period.

In total, up to a fifth of all false breath tests recorded by gardaí over an eight-year period were “inflated”.