Written answers
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
Department of Justice, Equality and Defence
Road Traffic Offences
10:00 pm
Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 266: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 90 of 24 November 2010, if the report is now available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21827/11]
Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 267: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the amount of income received for road traffic offences for the years 2008, 2009, 2010 and to date in 2011 by category; the amount of late payment penalties involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21828/11]
Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 268: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 28 October 2010, if the information is now available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21829/11]
Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 266 to 268, inclusive, together.
The collection of payments under the Fixed Charge Processing System was outsourced to An Post in January 2006. I am informed by the Garda authorities that information provided by An Post details the amount collected in respect of fixed charge notices that attract penalty points and those that do not. These are referred to as Declaration Notices and Non-Declaration Notices respectively. The amounts collected in respect of Declaration Notices and Non-Declaration Notices for each of the years, 2008, 2009, 2010 and up to the 15 July, 2011 are shown in the following table.
| Year | Type of Notice | Gross Amount Collected | Charges | Net Amount Collected for all notices | ||
| Declaration | Non-declaration | Declaration | Non-declaration | AllNotices | ||
| 2008 | 208,772 | 111,134 | €16,535,460 | €6,132,840 | €934,648 | €21,733,652 |
| 2009 | 199,221 | 103,999 | €16,041,980 | €5,921,230 | €1,175,410 | €20,787,800 |
| 2010 | 180,372 | 93,026 | €14,456,460 | €5,428,710 | €814,105 | €19,071,065 |
| 2011(as at 15 July) | 129,822 | 43,429 | €10,554,060 | €2,580,300 | €659,169 | €12,475,191 |
Fixed Charge Offences
I am further informed that information detailing the amount collected in respect of late payment penalties is not available for the years 2008 to 2011 and to extract this information would take a disproportionate amount of time and resources.
The amounts received in respect of Road Traffic Fines imposed by the courts from 2008 to June, 2011 are as follows:
2008 €15.680m
2009 €15.665m
2010 €11.372m
2011 €5.640m (Jan - June)
The matter of late payment penalties does not arise in respect of court imposed road traffic fines.
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