Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will introduce a system regarding vehicular safety which will require written-off vehicles to be accounted for and recorded on the national vehicle and driver file; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28879/16]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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​There is a currently an administrative arrangement between motor insurers and my Department whereby details of vehicles deemed damaged beyond repair (Category A and B write-offs) are sent to the Department and recorded on the National Vehicle and Driver File (NVDF). These vehicles have their records "locked down" on the NVDF and consequently no transaction can be processed for those vehicles (i.e. renewal of annual motor tax, change of ownership, etc.). As a result, a vehicle declared to the Department in this manner cannot be legally used again on a public road. My Department is now working with the Attorney Generals Office with a view to introducing legislative provisions for the regulation of written-off vehicles in the context of the next Road Traffic Bill.