Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)
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Question 510: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of instances in which drivers have not challenged the award of penalty points against them since the introduction of penalty points for each year; the number of instances in which they have challenged the award; the number of those challenges which succeeded; and the number which failed. [15098/06]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The recording of penalty point offences on a driver's licence record results either from a person being convicted of an offence that attracts penalty points, or payment of a fixed charge by a person in respect of an alleged offence that attracts penalty points. In the case of a person who is prosecuted in court it is open to the person to appeal the conviction. A person who opts to pay the fixed charge accepts the penalty points and have chosen not to have the matter referred to the court for determination.

Information on court appeals against convictions for penalty point offences is not available in my Department.