With the assistance of data made available voluntarily by the insurance industry, the Department following analysis against the 2.5 million active vehicles on the NVDF has to date written to the registered owners of some 856 vehicles which the records indicate have been written off and which may still be in use on public roads. At this stage verification of data relating to only one insurer remains to be finalised and when this is completed shortly the Department will write to the owners affected. This will bring this whole exercise to conclusion.
As I indicated in responses to previous similar questions, voluntary arrangements with insurers have been put in place whereby the NVDF receives regular notifications of write off instances. These arrangements which are operating well are enabling the NVDF to have current write off data and I am disposed to having a period of evaluation of these voluntary arrangements before considering what, if any, compulsory obligations are warranted.
Provision of write-off data in relation to vehicles at the time of registration is a matter for the Revenue Commissioners.