Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour)
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214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person is entitled to hold on to their UK driver licence once they swap for an Irish licence or if they lose that entitlement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42584/20]

Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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It is not possible to hold both a UK and Irish driving licence. The process of moving from a UK licence to an Irish licence is an exchange programme; the UK licence must be surrendered and exchanged for an Irish driving licence.  This is no more than the obvious corollary that drivers are required to obtain a driving licence in their country of residence, under EU law.  There is no provision in EU law for drivers to have more than one country of residence.