Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise the following urgent matter: the fact that more than 88,000 fixed charge summonses for motoring offences were listed before the courts during the first six months of 2007, clogging up the District Court unnecessarily, and that new ways of collecting these fines must be introduced, including the handing over of the collection of such fixed charge penalties to a debt collecting agency rather than resorting to the courts.

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