Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will address a couple of issues. One is the issue of people who lose their driver's licence or whose licences are confiscated. They are banned from driving by the court but very few of them surrender their licences. I am not as concerned as to whether they surrender the plastic card but we seem to keep finding people on the roads who are driving without permission to drive. An Garda Síochána's X, formerly Twitter, account seems to keep posting about how a car driving erratically was pulled in and it had no tax, NCT or driver's licence and the driver had various opioids in his or her system. What else can the committee, the RSA, An Garda Síochána and all of us do to prevent people who have either never been licensed to drive from driving or who are not allowed to drive from driving?

I will try to touch on the driver's test as well but all of us feel a sense of huge frustration to hear on the radio that so-and-so was convicted and then it turns out these people are continuing to drive. It does not seem to matter to them that their driver's licence has been taken. They just keep going and it appears that there is no one out there to stop them.