Vol. 397 No. 10
29 Mr. S. Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment the amounts paid out by the Motor Insurers' Bureau to victims of accidents involving uninsured motor vehicles in (a) 1988 and (b) 1989; and if he will give an estimate of the number of uninsured drivers for the same periods.
I understand from the Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (MIBI) that the amounts paid out directly by them to victims of uninsured and "hit and run" drivers totalled £15.1 million in 1988 and £13.5 million last year.
In 1987 the Garda Síochána carried out a comprehensive roadside survey of about 24,000 vehicles. The survey results indicated that between 6 and 8 per cent of vehicles in use were uninsured.
