PARC (http://www.parcroadsafety.ie/), the road safety lobby group did a survey of court cases and found that 80 per cent of drivers sentenced to penalty points in court and 96 per cent of drivers disqualified from driving (http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/courts-criticised-by-safety-group-over-penalty-points-lapses-31170159.html) in court did not have their driver licence number recorded by the court clerk.

The Moriarty Report (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriarty_Tribunal) was published in 2011, following an interim report in 2006. TheJournal.ie reported that ministers have been giving copy-and-paste answers (http://www.thejournal.ie/moriarty-garda-investigation-2175890-Jun2015/) as to why there has been no garda investigation into its findings.

Dr Julien Mercille (https://twitter.com/julienmercille) is lecturer in the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy at UCD (http://www.ucd.ie/warstudies/members/julienmercille/). Reports say Greek DJs (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/17/greece-pension-crisis-people) and hairdressers (http://www.businessinsider.com/in-greece-you-can-retire-at-50-with-full-benefits-2010-3?IR=T) retire aged 50 because their jobs are deemed 'hazardous'. A BBC More or Less programme calculated that they subsidies to the Greek rail system cost more than it would cost to send all the passengers in taxis (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18032721).

Matthew Wallis (http://www.ntu.ac.uk/apps/staff_profiles/staff_directory/134540-0/26/profile.aspx) is Senior Lecturer at the College of Business Law & Social Sciences at Nottingham Business School.

John Hamill (http://atheist.ie/author/hamillj/) is a member of the National Executive of Atheist Ireland.