Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Amendments Nos. 1 and 54 are an example of this. In discussions with the insurance industry, it became clear that the requirement to notify the Department within five days - a tight timeline that was set out in the 2016 Act - of an inspection in which a vehicle was written off because it was deemed not roadworthy or had come to the end of its life should be amended to ten days. In these provisions, we are amending the 2016 Act to allow the industry ten days to report rather than five. The requirement to report within five days was never commenced. We are now ensuring that it can be commenced, but as a ten-day timeline. It was felt that a five-day period was too short.