Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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I am keen for the new motor tax legislation to come in. I was shocked when I found out a year ago about the extent of registration of vehicles as being off the road. In discussions with Deputy Nolan, checks on the M50 were mentioned. I was shown figures that indicated that one in eight cars in the Dublin region are registered as being off the road. In Monaghan the figure was as high as one in four vehicles. Obviously some of these were genuinely off the road but when there is such discrepancy in the figures, in all probability, there is a greater level of non-compliance with the rules in Monaghan than in Dublin. That is not to say there is not a significant level of non-compliance in Dublin as well. The only reason I mention it is that it might give a guideline as to how non-compliance might be checked.