Written answers
Thursday, 25 May 2006
Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
Criminal Prosecutions
5:00 pm
Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 251: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will supply the information requested in Parliamentary Question No. 332 of 6 April 2006. [20291/06]
Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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I am informed by the Garda authorities that statistics are not compiled in such a way as to identify the number of provisional licence holders prosecuted and the number convicted for driving unaccompanied.
The number of prosecutions and convictions for no driving licence in each of the years since 2000 to date is set out in the following table:
| Year | Charges/Summonses | Convictions** |
| 2005* | 25,330 | 3,000 |
| 2004 | 24,231 | 5,444 |
| 2003 | 26,066 | 6,789 |
| 2002 | 30,819 | 7,852 |
| 2001 | 12,332 | 3,651 |
| 2000 | 483 | 329 |
| *Figures supplied for 2005 are provisional, operational and liable to change. |
It should be noted that motorists who fail to produce their driving licence in a Garda station named by them within ten days as required are as a consequence subsequently prosecuted. On the day of the court hearing the driving licence is produced by the driver in the majority of cases and as a result no conviction ensues.
The enforcement of the law on licences is an ongoing activity of members of An Garda Síochána through both scheduled checkpoints and unscheduled checks.
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