Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This presentation has been extremely helpful. I want to understand one thing. The people who are court disqualified are people with either drink-driving or dangerous driving convictions, which are very serious offences. Penalty points are cumulative but it is also very serious where one goes over the seven. I have just checked the data in the Courts Service report for 2016 and the courts issued 7,600 orders in respect of drink-driving. The vast majority of those people are drink-drivers or are dangerous drivers which is why it is important that when they are put off the road, they stay off the road. Anything we can do to help An Garda Síochána in that regard, we will.