Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)
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Question 318: To ask the Minister for Transport the Department and section which is responsible for remedying errors where penalty points have been invalidly and incorrectly applied. [15983/06]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The actual amendment is carried out by officials in the Driver Licensing Section of my Department.

The penalty point system only allows for the removal of penalty points following a successful late appeal against a conviction. However where penalty points have been applied as a result of an administrative error and through no fault of the individual concerned, a protocol for amending penalty point records has been put in place with the agreement of the Attorney General's Office. This stipulates that any request for amendment must be certified by a Garda Chief Superintendent or the Director of the District and Circuit Courts and be countersigned by an official of my Department of at least Assistant Principal rank.