Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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805. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons summoned to court for not paying a fixed charge notice for driving while holding a mobile phone by District Court in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [21428/21]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy may be aware, there are no summons issued for the failure to pay a Fixed Charge Notice within the statutory payment window. Rather, a person who chooses to exercise their right to not pay the Fixed Charge Penalty will be summonsed to Court for the offence for which the Fixed Charge Notice was originally issued - in the case of the information requested, the offence of driving whilst holding a mobile phone.

I have contacted the Courts Service and have been advised that the following table shows the number of persons before the courts and finalised for the offence of driving while holding a mobile phone by District Court for the periods Jan – Dec 2019, Jan – Dec 2020 & Jan – 31^stMarch 2021.

It should be noted that a defendant may be listed in more than one Court Area for each year and such defendants would be displayed more than once in this report.

* Less than 10