Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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626. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the Road Safety Authority figures stating that from the date it took over as the single licensing authority, on 29 October 2013, to 17 December 2014, 14 months, there were 9,611 drivers disqualified in court but 8,137 did not surrender their licences; the number of drivers prosecuted for the offence of failing to surrender their licence when disqualified in 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015. [5799/15]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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Under regulation 45 of the Road Traffic (Licensing of Drivers) Regulations 2006 (S.I. No. 537 of 2006), as amended by S.I. No. 6 of 2013, it is a legal requirement that people who are disqualified from driving must surrender their driving licences to the Road Safety Authority (RSA), in its capacity as the national driver licensing authority.  Not to do so is an offence.  

I understand that the RSA currently has a manual procedure for notifying An Garda Síochána in relation to cases where people who are disqualified do not surrender their licences and that the two organisations are in discussions about putting in place an electronic system of notification of non-surrender of licences.  This should assist the Gardaí in expediting enforcement in these cases.

Prosecution in these cases is a matter for An Garda Síochána, and I would suggest that the Deputy might direct his queries on prosecution numbers to my colleague the Minister for Justice and Equality.