Written answers
Wednesday, 17 January 2018
Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Vehicle Registration
Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the decision to use IRL as an identification mark on car licence plates as compared to an equivalent abbreviation of Éire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2146/18]
Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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The decision to use IRL as an identification mark on car license plates as compared to an equivalent abbreviation of Éire was agreed by Ireland as a participant at the United Nations Convention on Road Traffic in Geneva in 1949. It was subsequently ratified on 31 May 1962.
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