Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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135. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fixed charge penalty notices issued to learner drivers who were not accompanied by a qualified driver each year since 2013; the number of those that paid the fixed charge penalty notice; the number that were summonsed to court for failing to pay the fixed charge penalty notice; the number that resulted in a conviction with penalty points applied to their licence; her views on the fact that in 2015 alone 5,609 fixed charge penalty notices were issued for this offence but 2,763, that is, 47%, were not paid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37657/16]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I have requested the statistics in relation to the number of Fixed Charge Notices issued to learner drivers that were not accompanied by a qualified driver, the number of those paid and the number of summons that issued when payment was not received and I will contact the Deputy when those statistics are to hand.

However, as the Deputy is aware from replies to previous parliamentary questions, there is no direct or electronic link between prosecutions as recorded on the Courts Service Criminal Case Tracking System (CCTS) and the Fixed Charge Notice originally issued by An Garda Síochána and therefore it will not be possible to extract all of the specific categories of information sought by the Deputy.