Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context

Question 102: To ask the Minister for Transport the plans he has to tackle the problem of drivers who have incurred penalty points but who evaded their application due to their not having a driving licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23422/08]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context

The Road Traffic Act 2002 provides that where a driver has accumulated penalty points but does not have a driving licence record against which to apply those points, a separate record is created for him or her. The penalty points are held there in abeyance until the individual concerned has a driving licence record.

When a driving licence record is identified for the individual the penalty points are then transferred over and recorded against that individual.