Gardaí in Cavan and Monaghan paid private operators almost €270,000 for vehicle storage since 2018.
Around the country, over €15 million was paid from the start of 2018 up until July of this year.
Gardaí use external vehicle storage for holding official Garda vehicles, when a car is seized or detained for breaking the rules of the road, or where it is being held for investigative, evidential and technical examination processes.
These figures include payments made to non-contracted firms who were called to remove vehicles in emergency situations.
Freedom of Information figures released to Northern Sound News showed Gardaí in the Cavan-Monaghan division paid €269,512 in the 31 month time frame.
However they spent almost as much in the first seven months of 2020 (€74,188) as they did for all of 2019 (€76,330).
€118,994 was paid in 2018.
The national spend was €15,233,325.
In March, a Garda audit raised concern of the financial impact of paying to store vehicles seized versus the fees charged for storage.
Where a car is held for a lack of tax, insurance, NCT or where the driver is tests positive for drugs or alcohol or has no licence, €125 must be paid to recover a car, plus an additional €35 for every day it remains in storage after the initial 24 hours.
Internal analysis found 61 per cent of An Garda Siochana's €20 million budget deficit came from vehicle storage.
