Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 May 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána

11:50 am

Mr. Gerry O'Malley:

May I answer that question? Obviously, the way the system works is that the cameras on the M50 take an image of the registration plate of the vehicles passing the toll area. Regarding registration numbers, no personal details are compiled into a file that was run against a national vehicle file with the enquiry as to whether the status was taxed or untaxed on those particular dates.