Written answers

Thursday, 1 March 2012

Department of Justice, Equality and Defence

Road Traffic Offences

5:00 pm

Photo of Seán KennySeán Kenny (Dublin North East, Labour)
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Question 173: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of income received from road traffic offences for the years 2009 to 2011, inclusive and to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11935/12]

Photo of Alan ShatterAlan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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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 all fixed charge offence notices (road traffic, public order etc.) 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 from 2009 up to 24 February 2012 are shown in the following table.

Fixed Charge Offences

Gross Amount CollectedAn Post ChargesTotal Amount Collectedfor all Notices
YearDeclarationNon-DeclarationAll Notices
2012(to 24/02/2012)€2,612,330€704,020€75,358€3,240,992
2011€19,796,090€4,682,380€1,192,849€23,285,621
2010€14,456,460€5,428,710€814,105€19,071,065
2009€16,041,980€5,921,230€1,175,410€20,787,800

The amounts received in respect of Road Traffic Fines imposed by the Courts from 2009 to January 2012 are as follows:

2012 (January)€0.881m
2011€9.488m
2010€11.372m
2009€15.665m

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