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:

They contain the two million plus vehicles I have just mentioned as being currently taxed. They would also include a residual number of vehicles that are circulating but untaxed, which is effectively the 5% about which we have been talking. In addition to that, it would include a very old stock of vehicles dating back to the 1970s that were recorded, had previously been or were in circulation, were taxed, ceased to be taxed over a number of years and were not re-taxed. Some of them would have been recorded as being scrapped. The Deputy knows the standards people applied in the past where vehicles were just dumped in lay-bys and would have gone back into landfill in some cases before the situation became much more regulated.