Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We intend to address the issue in legislation this year. Although I probably will not be around for it, I have an ambition to introduce a master licence record of a very sophisticated nature. Maybe it will not be this year. Information on that will be available and checkable on one record or computer system. That will include vehicles, drivers, licences, insurance, tax, national car tax and all those elements in order that they can be compared immediately. The Deputy knows one of the current problems is even the vehicle and driver element do not talk to each other, which makes detection very difficult for gardaí. I see no reason for this somewhat antediluvian system, which obstructs detection and prevention of accidents and fatalities, not being amalgamated into one driver file. It is my ambition to do that and the Deputy would share that view.

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