Written answers
Tuesday, 20 March 2018
Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Driver Licences
Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent)
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826. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if asylum seekers are entitled to driver licences; and the legal basis for this decision. [11964/18]
Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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Under EU law, Member States issue driving licences to those normally resident in their jurisdiction.
Asylum-seekers are, by definition, people whose residence status has yet to be decided. As such, we cannot issue them with driving licences.
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