An angry Judge Seamus Hughes told Mullingar District Court on Thursday last that he was tired of hearing stories of summons not being delivered to addresses given to gardaí.
He praised the Irish postal system and stated that he would not accept that there was a 90 per cent failure rate.
Judge Hughes told the court that a letter with a fixed penalty attached, if not delivered to its owner, would go back to its original point of dispatch and this was not happening.
At an earlier sitting at Athlone District Court Judge Hughes had been critical of the way in which some motorists were giving gardaí their driver’s licences when stopped at Garda checkpoints and when found to have committed an offence, they would fail to inform the gardaí if their address had since changed leading to a summons being delivered to the wrong address.
On Thursday last in Mullingar Judge Hughes said he found it unacceptable that so many people were not receiving notice to appear in his courts claiming they had not been informed or received the necessary documentation.
