SPEED VANS COLLECTED over €32m in fines from January 2023 to June 2025, according to figures released to Ireland South MEP Cynthia Ní Mhurchú. 

Operating costs for the speed vans paid out to contracted private speed camera operator GoSafe between January 2023 and August 2025 was set at €44m, meaning that despite the level of fines, the speed vans are losing money. 

Revenue from the speed vans across all garda districts fell by almost 16% between 2023 and 2024. 

In the figures for the two-and-a-half years, Dublin and Tipperary issued the largest number of fines for speeding, followed by Co Cork. In the Dublin policing district, €6.2m was collected. Tipperary collected €3.3m, and Cork collected €2.8m.

The remaining seven counties that collected the largest amount of revenue from speed vans are Kildare, Galway, Wicklow, Westmeath, Limerick, Mayo, and Cavan/Monaghan. In these districts, revenue ranged from €2.5m to €1.1m.

Based on EU Commission reports, speeding is the cause of 30% of fatal crashes – which would mean speeding was the cause of death of around 52 Irish people in 2024, Ní Mhurchú said, based on the 174 people killed on Irish roads last year.

The MEP called for more to be done to prevent speeding in Ireland as the figures were released.

“There are 52 families across the country mourning loved ones because we have failed to tackle speeding in any meaningful way.”

An additional €9m in funding was provided at the end of last year for up to 100 new speed cameras to enhance road safety, and the annual monitoring hours raised 33% from 6,000 to 9,000 in response to rising road fatalities.

Ní Mhurchú said the current stock of speed vans should be subject to “smarter positioning” and located in areas of the highest risk of road fatalities. 

A garda spokesperson said that it has been consistent in highlighting that speed camera vans are not designed to raise revenue, but to change driver behaviour and pattern in areas prone to collisions.

“An overall reduction in the number of fixed charge notices issued by mobile safety camera vans is an indication of increased compliance with speed limits by drivers in the identified and monitored safety camera zones,” a garda spokesperson said. “The locations of safety camera zones are reviewed by An Garda Síochána on a regular basis.”

In 2024 over 96,500 fixed charge notices for speeding were issued from mobile safety camera vans, compared to approximately 110,000 in 2023.