Written answers
Wednesday, 9 March 2005
Department of Transport
Driving Tests
9:00 pm
Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 217: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of current provisional driving licences; and if he will provide a breakdown of these into the various categories of licence. [8126/05]
Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, who hold and administer the national driver file, has advised me that the number of provisional licence holders was 380,347 as at 31 December 2004. That Department has also provided a breakdown of this figure into the various categories as in the table.
| Analysis of Provisional Licence — Numbers broken down by Category and Provisional Licence No. | ||||||
| Provisional Licence No. | ||||||
| Licence Category | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th and more | Total |
| A | 59,703 | 14,336 | 1,588 | 527 | 178 | 76,332 |
| A1 | 56,976 | 22,152 | 2,709 | 856 | 190 | 82,883 |
| B | 152,404 | 90,155 | 41,056 | 30,520 | 16,441 | 330,576 |
| C | 6,238 | 1,714 | 221 | 57 | 17 | 8,247 |
| C1 | 3,474 | 748 | 67 | 19 | 3 | 4,311 |
| D | 1,795 | 655 | 59 | 19 | 2 | 2,530 |
| D1 | 1,453 | 505 | 43 | 12 | 2 | 2,015 |
| EB | 1,200 | 314 | 34 | 7 | 0 | 1,555 |
| EC | 2,091 | 454 | 47 | 12 | 2 | 2,606 |
| EC1 | 1,041 | 122 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1,175 |
| ED | 29 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| ED1 | 43 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 49 |
| M | 80,498 | 13,237 | 312 | 5 | 1 | 94,053 |
| W | 72,560 | 21,852 | 5,027 | 2,567 | 868 | 102,874 |
| Total | 439,505 | 166,260 | 51,176 | 34,601 | 17,704 | 709,246 |
The figures represent counts of provisional licence categories and not provisional licences, namely, number of licensed drivers holding provisional licences. Totals by category do not equal the total number of licences, because a provisional licence may have more than one category and each category can be of a different classification, namely, first, second, third and so forth. For example, a driver has a provisional licence with two categories, A and B. Category A is a first provisional and B is a second; this constitutes one provisional licence, but two provisional categories.
Also, where categories on a multi-category licence all have the same provisional count, each category is counted separately, for example, a current provisional licence with four first provisional categories A, B, M, W will be counted four times. The figures in the table will include this licence four times, one first A, one first B, one first M and one first W. For category B, a car without a trailer, there are 152,404 licences with first provisionals, 90,155 with second provisionals, 41,056 with third provisionals and so forth. Some of these licences may also contain other categories, for example, category M, moped, category W, work vehicle-tractor and so forth, which are counted separately.
The total number of current provisional licences on 31 December 2004 is 380,347.
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