Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will initiate negotiations with the UK on a formal licence exchange agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44806/20]

Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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A driving licence exchange agreement is now in place between Ireland and the United Kingdom. The Road Traffic (Recognition of Driving Licences) (United Kingdom) Order 2020 (S.I. 683 of 2020), made under section 23A of the Road Traffic Act 1961, was signed on 22 December 2020 and came into force at 11pm on 31 December 2020 (the end of the transition period).

The agreement recognises UK (including NI) issued driving licences for exchange purposes.