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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: We have heard of cases where people have been caught driving without tax, insurance or a driving licence. Clearly, there is another cohort of cars out there that are not even taxed. I would suggest that if they are not taxed, it is highly likely that they are not insured either.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Therefore, MIBI's figures are possibly understating the problem.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I know it is not MIBI's area of responsibility as such, but do we have we any idea, from any statistics, how many untaxed cars are out there in terms of the motor vehicle fleet within the country?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I get that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: A total of €2 billion is what has been paid out since the MIBI's inception, which is a huge amount. It is €70 million a year, and effectively we are all subsidising the uninsured drivers. Mr. Fitzgerald said that, at one stage, 128 people per day were being picked up on a very limited basis. Was that when the ANPR started to be used? There was talk about false positives at...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: That is 128 per day on quite a small sample, you would imagine. It could be a lot higher.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Regarding the car versus the driver, the car is insured, so the MIBI looking at uninsured cars rather than drivers. The car is taxed but not insured. I think that is how it is extrapolated. What is the story when somebody is driving a car they are not entitled to drive? For example, it could be their mother's car, but they are not on the policy and there is not open driving. What happens...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I see there is a vótáil but I will keep going for a little while, and see how we get on. I think it has only been called.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: It is kind of extrapolated on a general basis, but are there geographic pockets, areas of disadvantage, more rural or more urban? Do you know where these cars are?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Louth, Limerick, Longford and Dublin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Yet Longford and Roscommon are right beside each other, which is peculiar.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Has the MIBI any ability to do targeted campaigns in Longford, Louth, Limerick or Dublin relative to Roscommon?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: They are for the people the MIBI is chasing regarding an accident that actually happened.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: As opposed to people who just jumped in the car, having taxed it but who were not insured, and they are driving around. What is the sanction for them at the moment? What happens when they are caught by An Garda Síochána for driving without insurance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Does that happen?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: It is clearly not getting through to them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Again, do they get fined? Do we know if they pay the fines?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: What Mr. Fitzgerald is really looking for is the Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021 to be enacted as soon as possible, and then to look at the system in Britain, which requires everybody who is taxed to get a letter saying they are not insured, or that their car is taxed but not insured, and we are going to fine you unless you give us-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: They do not have discs on their windscreens in the UK, do they?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: The main take we have is the need to have the Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021 enacted, and then have all these databases talking to each other properly.