Garda speed vans net over €1.6m in just over two years in Meath and Louth

Gardaí in Meath collected €1,031,920 from Garda speed vans over a two-year period.

In Louth, Garda speed vans collected €580,000 over the same period.

This has prompted a call for a get-tough approach to those who are caught doing excessive speeds on our rural roads and for a greater concentration of speed vans at accident black spots where speeding is dramatically impacting on road safety.

Ireland South MEP Cynthia Ní Mhurchú made her calls as Gardaí released figures to her showing that €32,437,002 has been collected in the country in fines from Garda speed vans in the same time period. Ní Mhurchú questioned why revenue from speed vans across all Garda districts fell by 15.9 per cent between 2023 and 2024.

Garda figures released to Ní Mhurchu also show that Gardaí paid out over €44m euro to private speed camera operators between the start of 2023 and up to August 2025, meaning that the Garda speed van system is operating at an overall loss.

Ní Mhurchú welcomed an extra €9 million in funding for up to 100 new speed cameras to enhance road safety at the end of 2024 but said that continual investment in new technology is needed to catch those who are flouting the law.