Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána

Ms Paula Hilman:

We are able to say that someone has a licence but we do not have information on the types or whether it is new, provisional or full. We do not have information on the category of car or vehicle people are able to drive.

We know they are disqualified, but that is a disqualified "Yes" or "No". We do not even have the data on penalty points. For example, if someone is sitting on nine penalty points or whatever, we do not have that data. We do not have access. We have some data, and we make best use of the data we have. We do not have access to the full national driver vehicle file, however. Full access to that would-----

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