Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Thank you. There are many holes that need to be plugged. It is quite staggering how the records on insurance - who is insured or not - are a shambles. As I am sure the Deputy is aware, under a system abandoned in 2014, people were coming up in the automatic number plate recognition system as being uninsured when they had just changed insurance companies. Perhaps that is one of the reasons we have such a huge estimate for the number of uninsured people in the country. Perhaps it is correct but the figure was 150,000 at one stage. That may be a result of the fact that the collection of information is so flawed. The Deputy mentioned people changing addresses and that we do not know where people live in certain circumstances. That could be addressed and we will address it with a great deal of urgency not just in legislation but also by encouraging the various State agencies in this regard.

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