Mr. Keith Walsh:

The NVDF, which the Department maintains, is the register of all licensed drivers and the penalty points and disqualifications on their records. The NVDF gets information. The Department gets information for the NVDF from a range of sources like the Garda, the RSA and the courts, sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly. I know the Deputy has asked a lot of parliamentary questions on this and there are different ways of looking at it. It may be useful to give the overall figures for 2024. The NVDF and the Department were notified of 10,910 disqualifications in 2024. Some 82% of those, or 8,988, have been matched to a driver record on the NVDF. That 82% will never be 100% because there are foreign licenceholders who could be disqualified or people who are disqualified who have never held a licence. That will never be 100%. Yes, it probably should be higher than 82%. We do a lot of work in the Department on matching, as do colleagues in the RSA. As the Deputy knows from her parliamentary questions, about 25% of courts information has a driver number, and we get that right up to an 82% match. That is through the matching work we do. It would be great if more driver numbers were captured through the courts system, but we also have to recognise that the courts are an incredibly busy setting. Even though it is an offence not to present the licence, there is not always time for the procedures to be followed. From the Department's perspective-----