Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 463: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the efforts being made to detect learner drivers not displaying L plates, particularly those not displaying L plates who drive on motorways here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22639/07]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The law on licences including the display of L plates is enforced by An Garda Síochána both through scheduled checkpoints and unscheduled checks.

I am informed by the Garda authorities that 40,391 proceedings were commenced in 2006 for the offence of having no driving licence. There have been 26,177 proceedings commenced to date in 2007. Figures provided for 2007 are provisional, operational and liable to change.

I am further informed that statistics are not compiled in such a way as to provide a breakdown of these figures.