Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland

Mr. David Fitzgerald:

They will, exactly. That database is updated every night by insurers and their brokers. They will have two feeds. The first is a suspected list of uninsured drivers that we derive using our data. That will aid them, say, where a vehicle looks like an uninsured vehicle. They will also have a comprehensive insurance database where, if they are at the side of the road and they want to interrogate that driver or investigate a suspected uninsured driving case, they will be able to see all of the details about when the driver came on and off insurance, what drivers are insured for the car and the category of insurance. It will include all the detail that the Garda needs for enforcement, not only whether the vehicle is insured but also whether the driver is insured to drive that vehicle and that type of vehicle.

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