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Driver Licences

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 16 November 2017

Thursday, 16 November 2017

Questions (201)

Pearse Doherty

Question:

201. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to the introduction of mutual recognition of driver disqualification between the State and Britain as and from 1 August 2017, in circumstances whereby a person has been convicted and found guilty of driving offences leading to that person being disqualified from driving and forced to surrender their licence here, if such a disqualification is recognised by authorities in Britain should the conviction have occurred prior to the aforementioned date; if authorities here recognise a disqualification for driving offences committed in Britain should the conviction have occurred before said date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48575/17]

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The Mutual Recognition of Driving Disqualifications between Ireland and the United Kingdom came into effect from 1 August 2017. The Agreement underpinning that mutual recognition provides in Artice 14.3 that the Agreement shall only apply to offences committed after entry into force of the Agreement. Therefore any convictions for offences committed before 1 August 2017, in respect of covered by the Agreement, fall outside of the scope of the Agreement.

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