The Road Traffic and Road Transport Acts already provide for heavy goods vehicle-related offences and respective penalties on conviction in court for such offences.
However, the Road Traffic Bill 2009, which is currently before the Dáil for Second Stage consideration, provides for the inclusion of offences under the Road Transport Act 1933, not tried on indictment, and under any regulation made under the European Communities Act 1972, providing for the carriage of merchandise by road or the carriage of passengers by road or the issuing of transport discs within the Fixed Charge System which replaced the old ‘on-the-spot fines' system in 2002. Such offences are currently dealt with by way of direct summons to court.
The Road Safety Authority (RSA) is responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Road Transport Working Time Directive. EC Member States are also obliged under Directive 2006/22 EC to introduce a risk rating system for undertakings based on the relative number and severity of any infringements of drivers' hours rules. The RSA has established a risk rating register in line with requirements of the Directive and matters relating to the risk register are dealt with by the RSA.
My Department holds data regarding all driver's licences that have been rescinded, whether by a decision of a Court, or by the accumulation of penalty points. However, there is no specific data which link those rescinded licences to fatal road accidents.