The number of drink and drug-driving checkpoints in the Cavan, Monaghan and Louth have decreased by almost a quarter in the space of a year.
There were 594 in the third quarter of 2024 - but only 470 in the same period last year, a drop of -20.8% per cent.
Nationally, checkpoints decreased by 7.5 per cent in this period, with a total of 11,958 tests carried out.
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EU Transport Committee MEP Cynthia Ní Mhurchú is calling on Garda management to justify the reduction in roadside testing nationwide.
She described the difference in the number of checkpoints between 2019 and 2025 as frightening:
