Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 January 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System

12:40 pm

Mr. Martin Callinan:

Absolutely. I concur with the Deputy's view. It is the case now that we are trying to bring about a more focused and integrated IT solution to people who are making decisions around cancellations so that they can see this very quickly. It is a very complicated and convoluted process to get in and check to see whether an individual had received points previously. That is a piece of work that is going on at the moment and we would hope to bring that matter to conclusion very speedily. Certainly, it is the case that if a person, for no good reason, has broken the law and been found to be speeding on a consistent basis, then absolutely it should not be tolerated, but in a number of cases where some of these allegations are made, there have been very genuine reasons that the person looking, at face value, could not see beyond a particular screen - persons delivering blood, for example, in an emergency situation-----