Mr. David Sheahan:

We have not gone through the costings and that is what we are currently working on. To demonstrate, as committee members can see, if I turn on the app and look for a person's driving licence, what comes up in front of me is the penalty point disqualification. Therefore, the minute I stop the person and put in his driving licence number, the app tells me whether he is disqualified - for example, a red bar will come up on the screen if there is a penalty point disqualification. In another example, the app will tell me there is a penalty point disqualification and a non-surrendered licence, and can give me those two pieces of data instantly at the side of the road. In such a case, I do not have to look beyond that and I can arrest the person for the offence.

The next example shows information from a recent check in Limerick. When we stopped a person, the app showed the holder of the driving licence was deceased and we discovered the driver was using a licence held by an already deceased person. In the next example, it was found the person was ineligible to have the licence and we were able to tell that immediately. Finally, a man produced a driving licence to us and when we put it into the system, it came back listed as "unknown". We were able to tell instantly that it was a forgery that had been handed to us.