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Contract for mobile speed cameras signed

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The Government has announced the introduction of 45 new mobile speed cameras which it says will be on the roads all over the country by the middle of next year.

The Minister for Justice, the Minister for Transport and the Garda Commissioner signed a €16m annual contract in Templemore today with the commercial company that will operate the system.

The cameras were first promised 11 years ago and while Dermot Ahern accepted that there was a long delay, he said the cameras would save lives.

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The announcement was welcomed by the Road Safety Authority, which said in the last three years, speeding killed 157 people and injured 310.

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