Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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198. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 638 of 10 February 2021, if the further information requested from An Garda Síochána in relation to localised data is now available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24791/21]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I have requested the information sought by the Deputy from An Garda Síochána, but unfortunately I have yet to received the desired data. I will write to the Deputy as soon as the required information is to hand.

Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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199. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fixed charge notices issued by An Garda Síochána in each of the years 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021 by Garda district and division to learner drivers for the offence of driving unaccompanied by a qualified driver; the number of drivers that failed to pay the fixed charge notice in each year; the number of drivers summoned to court for failure to pay; the number of drivers convicted each year by district court and penalties imposed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24793/21]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I have requested the information sought by the Deputy from the Courts Service and An Garda Síochána, but I have not received this information in time. I will write to the Deputy as soon as the information is to hand.

Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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200. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drivers issued with a fixed charge notice for driving while holding a mobile phone by Garda division in each of the years 2018 to 2020; the number of drivers per year that failed to pay the fixed charge notice; the number of drivers that were summoned to court for failure to pay by District Court in each of the years 2018 to 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24795/21]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I have requested a report from the Garda authorities on the information requested by the Deputy in relation to the number of drivers issued with a fixed charge notice for driving while holding a mobile phone by Garda division in each of the years 2018 to 2020; and the number of drivers per year that failed to pay the fixed charge notice. Unfortunately, this report was not available in time and I will write to the Deputy once the report is to hand.

As the Deputy will 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 2018, Jan – Dec 2019, Jan - Dec 2020 and Jan – 31 March 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:

Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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201. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if PULSE was updated in 2019 providing a field whereby gardaí must report the reason a vehicle was seized under section 41 of the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act 2018 to include the offence of driving while disqualified; if data can now be provided through this avenue to give the number of vehicles and drivers who had their vehicles seized for driving while disqualified as a result of being stopped by gardaí; the number seized in each of the years 2018 to 2020 by Garda district; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24796/21]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I have requested the information sought by the Deputy from An Garda Síochána, but I have not received the response in time. I will write to the Deputy as soon as the required information is to hand.