Written answers
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Penalty Points System
9:00 pm
Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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Question 776: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of drivers on penalty points, ordered by the number of points; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19933/12]
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The following tabular statement provides the material requested by the Deputy.
Number of drivers on penalty points at 31st March 2012 ordered by the number of points.
| PenaltyPoints No. | No. of Drivers |
| 1 POINT | 13,092 |
| 2 POINTS | 579,874 |
| 3 POINTS | 4,856 |
| 4 POINTS | 126,478 |
| 5 POINTS | 35,540 |
| 6 POINTS | 16,213 |
| 7 POINTS | 724 |
| 8 POINTS | 3,870 |
| 9 POINTS | 307 |
| 10 POINTS | 832 |
| 11 POINTS | 97 |
| 12 POINTS | 133 |
| TOTAL | 782,016 |
Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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Question 777: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of drivers who have not had penalty points applied to their licences due to a lack of information on licence numbers gathered in courts when drivers are prosecuted; the number of penalty points not applied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19934/12]
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Under the Road Traffic Act 2002 penalty points are required to be endorsed on the Irish driving licence record held on the National Vehicle and Driver File (NVDF) and a current driving licence is required to serve penalty points. While in the majority of cases this endorsement takes place without difficulty against the relevant NVDF driver record there are circumstances where endorsement of the points on the NVDF is not possible.
It is not possible to determine the number of drivers who have not had penalty points applied to their licences on the NVDF due to the absence of driving licence numbers in the data provided by the Courts Service. However since 2002 some 83,788 penalty points offences ( total of 365,795 penalty points) received from the Courts could not be associated with the relevant driving licence record on the NVDF. This is broken down as follows with overall penalty points offences for each year also included. In all these cases the NVDF issued a notification of penalty points to the driver in question so the driver is aware of the situation.
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