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Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Peter Burke: I recently raised here the disqualification of drivers and driver licences that were surrendered. In 2011, 2012 and 2013 only 6% to 7% of those disqualified through the courts handed back their licences. In response to a parliamentary question, the CEO of the Road Safety Authority, RSA, advised that the RSA and the Courts Service were engaged in an exercise to reconcile data that involves...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Peter Burke: If there were a rate of in excess of 80%, I might give Mr. Mullan some leeway. However, when the rate is only 6% or 7% it indicates that for some of the years on foot of a District Court order to surrender their licence, only 6% of those people actually surrendered their licence. While there can be some overlap with individuals reaching the threshold of penalty points and there can be...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Peter Burke: It is 1% in relation to what?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Peter Burke: It has issued figures showing that over a six-year period only 12% of drivers, who were convicted and required to hand in their licence, handed in their licence. If the Courts Service got it to within 1%, Mr. Mullan is saying that the RSA figures are correct.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Peter Burke: There is a significant difference between the RSA figures and the Courts Service figures.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Peter Burke: It is more than 1%.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Peter Burke: This is very basic in the administration of justice. Those systems are clearly not working.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Peter Burke: It is all coming back to legislation. That seems to be the excuse being used. It surely is a simple thing if a judge directs someone to hand in their licence that we have a system in place that can measure that accurately and tell us pretty well immediately if someone is contravening that order and has not handed in their licence by the specified period. One would think that would be...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Peter Burke: -----but it is not.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Peter Burke: Is Mr. Mullan saying they do not have enough staff?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Peter Burke: Does Mr. Mullan believe the legislation is appropriate for it now?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Peter Burke: I have an issue with Mr. Mullan saying every time that it is a matter for us. Quite clearly it is not a matter for us if the Courts Service cannot accurately measure the number of people who were convicted and had their driver licence withheld, and present that figure to me. He is saying there is a 1% difference in figures there-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Peter Burke: There would be no family law done.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Peter Burke: This is incredible stuff. Ms Denning has said that one third of people hand in their driver licence in the court. That totally contradicts the RSA figures, which were: 6% in 2011; 7% in 2012; 9% in 2013; and 9% in 2014. In 2018 after the change in legislation, it went up to 13%. Those figures are a long way off one third of people. There is a serious contradiction in the figures and Mr....

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Peter Burke: This is a straightforward fact. The fact is that a District Court judge issues an order that someone has to surrender their licence. We should be able to measure exactly what is handed in on that day and exactly what is not. It is the job of the Courts Service to ensure that we have the data to enable us to make decisions and legislative change if that is required. I have major concerns in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Peter Burke: We have been issued with an eight-page opening statement. I would have thought these issues would be an opportunity for the Courts Service to bring these concerns to the attention of the Committee of Public Accounts if the service is concerned that legislation is not operating correctly, that disqualified drivers are not being tracked correctly or that fines are not being collected in an...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Peter Burke: I am simply pointing out a fact. It is a simple matter to track drivers who are driving when they have not surrendered their licences, having been instructed to by the court. It is straightforward.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Home Tuition Scheme Provision (14 Nov 2019)

Peter Burke: 77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for further tuition hours by a person (details supplied). [46954/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (14 Nov 2019)

Peter Burke: 148. To ask the Minister for Health when osimertinib will be approved for reimbursement to replace tarceva for the treatment of patients with a specific type of lung cancer; if the HPRA has commissioned a review of the effectiveness of the new drug; if it will consider granting it to patients here in view of the relatively modest cost due to the small number of patients suffering with this...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Investments (12 Nov 2019)

Peter Burke: 289. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason it is Enterprise Ireland policy not to fund capacity in the meat processing sector in view of the need for competition in the sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46387/19]