Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent)
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826. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if asylum seekers are entitled to driver licences; and the legal basis for this decision. [11964/18]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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Under EU law, Member States issue driving licences to those normally resident in their jurisdiction.

Asylum-seekers are, by definition, people whose residence status has yet to be decided.  As such, we cannot issue them with driving licences.