Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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860. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driver penalty points which cannot be applied to the driver licence record file due to the fact that the driver licence number supplied by An Garda Síochána does not match the driver number on the record in his Department's National Vehicle Driver File; the number of instances, in tabular form, where this occurred in each of the years 2012 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23172/15]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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An Garda Siochána do not accept payments under Section 103 of the Road Traffic Act 1961 in respect of penalty point offences without obtaining details of the driving licence of the offenders. Consequently all penalty points in respect of offences received by my Department from this source are applied to Irish or Foreign driver records, as appropriate, on the National Vehicle and Driver File (NVDF).

The following tabular statement provides the breakdown in respect of the years 2012 (from June onwards) to date in 2015 (up to end of May) for penalty points records received from An Garda Siochana: