Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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602. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 9 October 2018, to which the Road Safety Authority replied on 23 November 2018, the reason for the discrepancies between the number of drivers disqualified in court in each of the years 2016, 2017 and up to the end of September 2018 and the figures supplied by the Minister for Justice and Equality in reply to Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 9 October 2018 (details supplied); if he is requesting an examination into the difference between the figures; the correct figures regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50963/18]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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The matter of the misalignment between the Court Service data and that held by my Department and the Road Safety Authority may simply be how the data is interpreted, for example, there is a time lag between when a person is disqualified in Court and a formal notification is received by my Department arising from such a disqualification.

In order to bring clarity to the issue I have asked my officials in consultation with the RSA to examine the matter in greater detail.