Road Traffic Offences

Wednesday, 28 April 2021

Questions (805)

Catherine Murphy

Question:

805. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice 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]

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Minister for Justice

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 – 31st 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.

Court Area	Jan - Dec 2019 No. of Persons	Jan - Dec 2020 No. of Persons	Jan - 31 Mar 2021 No. of Persons
ACAILL	0	0	*
AN CLOCHAN LIATH	*	*	0
AN DAINGEAN	*	0	0
AN FAL CARRACH	*	0	*
ARDEE	36	12	0
ARKLOW	24	11	0
ATHLONE	42	25	*
ATHY	20	10	*
BALLAGHADERREEN	*	0	*
BALLINA	43	34	*
BALLINASLOE	19	20	13
BALLYSHANNON	*	*	*
BANDON	46	27	13
BANTRY	10	*	*
BEAL AN MHUIRTHEAD	*	*	*
BRAY	78	44	*
BUNCRANA	32	31	*
CAHIRCIVEEN	*	*	0
CARLOW	93	104	49
CARNDONAGH	*	*	0
CARRICK ON SHANNON	36	19	*
CARRICK ON SUIR	*	*	*
CARRICKMACROSS	81	31	*
CASHEL	39	22	*
CASTLEBAR	65	90	*
CASTLEREA	*	*	0
CAVAN	65	44	12
CLIFDEN	*	*	*
CLONAKILTY	15	*	0
CLONMEL	18	16	10
CORK CITY	371	190	97
DOIRE AN FHEICH	*	*	0
DONEGAL	*	*	*
DROGHEDA	45	41	*
DUBLIN METROPOLITAN DISTRICT	1,431	821	228
DUNDALK	50	35	*
DUNGARVAN	39	17	15
ENNIS	109	51	25
FERMOY	45	20	*
GALWAY	272	176	30
GOREY	147	61	33
GORT	32	13	0
KILCOCK	23	0	0
KILKENNY	121	55	42
KILLALOE	11	*	*
KILLARNEY	69	26	*
KILLORGLIN	*	*	0
KILRUSH	15	*	*
LETTERKENNY	31	49	12
LIMERICK	430	295	33
LISMORE	*	*	*
LISTOWEL	15	17	*
LONGFORD	55	40	13
LOUGHREA	43	20	11
MACROOM	44	17	*
MALLOW	56	61	25
MANORHAMILTON	*	0	0
MEATH	114	78	45
MIDLETON	94	68	*
MONAGHAN	19	12	*
MULLINGAR	23	*	*
NA GLEANNTA	0	*	0
NAAS	340	157	49
NENAGH	26	26	14
NEWCASTLE WEST	93	53	13
PORTLAOISE	198	66	46
ROSCOMMON	32	19	*
SKIBBEREEN	*	*	0
SLIGO	106	42	0
STROKESTOWN	*	*	0
THURLES	48	26	17
TIPPERARY	24	*	*
TRALEE	121	96	*
TUAM	51	27	*
TUBBERCURRY	15	13	0
TULLAMORE	64	38	20
VIRGINIA	41	31	18
WATERFORD CITY	176	112	23
WESTPORT	*	0	0
WEXFORD	166	115	56
WICKLOW	37	28	*
YOUGHAL	*	*	0
Total no of Persons	6,081	3,635	1,089

* Less than 10