Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is a given. Mr. Fitzgerald pointed out that enforcement would be much easier if the database was completed and everyone had access to it. We all acknowledge that.

I assumed there would be a caveat to the figures the witnesses provided, but Mr. Fitzgerald is saying that the MIBI may have underestimated the number, has now done a great deal of due diligence to ensure it does not underestimate it in future, and all the clever anomalies we try to think up only amount to a negligible figure. That shocks me. In the past two years, there has been an increase of 32,000 in the number of uninsured vehicles, with 13,000 in the past year.