Sir, – Having recently worked two consecutive days in a vulnerable healthcare setting, I was stopped and breathalysed by gardaí outside Terenure village in Dublin last weekend.
While having no issue with gardaí enforcing the various road traffic acts, I do have concerns about the use of a breathalyser machine, specially in relation to the transmission of Covid -19 infections with its repeated use.
With people suffering genuine fear and anxiety of contacting this dreadful disease, I just wonder what options are available to ensure compliance with the Garda request of providing a sample without the risk of prosecution?
I can definitely state I wasn’t returning from one of those much talked about house parties. – Yours, etc,
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PJ DE BURCA,
Co Meath.