Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 November 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 31 - Transport
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 9 - Appraisal of Rail Project Investments
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 21 - Collection of Motor Vehicle Taxes
Financial Statements: Motor Tax Account 2024
2:00 am
Dr. Keith Walsh:
I do not have specific figures to give the Deputy but we are looking at range of different databases that are available to us. Some of them are collected by different agencies of the State. We are using those to compare. The Motor Insurers’ Bureau of Ireland, for example, estimates the number of uninsured vehicles on the roads was about 8% two years ago and has dropped to around 4% now. We look at those sorts of things and we compare them, but it is one of the Comptroller and Auditor General's recommendations in his report that we do this and we are going to be developing exactly those kind of compliance measures. As Mr. Spratt said earlier we will deliver on that either in 2026 or by early 2027 at the latest.
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