Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 171: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons who have been committed to prison for non-payment of fines resulting from penalty point convictions in the Courts. [26683/07]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The Irish Prison Service does not record information relating to the imposition of penalty points.

In any event, according to information available to the Irish Prison Service, non-payment of fines arising from motoring offences featured in the committal orders of 1022 persons sent to prison since 1st September 2006. However, it would be misleading to suggest that the non-payment of fines by them contributed exclusively to their imprisonment as many committals had also been convicted of other offences which would in their own right have resulted in the imposition of a custodial sentence.