Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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Where a person either pays a fixed charge for a road traffic offence or is convicted of a penalty point offence in court, data necessary to ensure that penalty points are endorsed in the person's licence record must be forwarded to my Department by the Garda or the Courts Service, respectively. The average period between receipt of such notifications by the company that is engaged to process this data for my Department and the subsequent issue of a notification to a person of the date on which penalty points will be entered on their licence record is ten days.

Responsibility for ensuring the timely submission to my Department of the notifications of payment of a fixed charge or of a conviction in respect of offences that attract penalty points are matters for the Garda Síochána and the Courts Service.