Passenger Car Fleet.

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Ceisteanna (208)

Ciarán Cuffe

Ceist:

251 Deputy Ciarán Cuffe asked the Minister for Transport the average age of vehicles in the passenger car fleet here in each of the past five years for which figures are available; if he will provide the most recent comparisons with other EU countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41731/09]

Amharc ar fhreagra

Freagraí scríofa

Minister for Transport (Deputy Noel Dempsey)

The tabular statement below provides details on the age of private cars for the years 2004-2008. The Department does not have any equivalent data relating to other EU countries.

Age of Private Cars under current licence at the 31st December for the years 2004 to 2008.

Age of Vehicle	Year
	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004
Less than 1 year old	137,669	170,706	162,943	155,798	140,129
1 year old	174,267	167,318	161,019	143,467	133,186
2 years old	168,779	164,509	146,320	134,464	142,337
3 years old	168,044	151,040	138,967	143,081	149,840
4 years old	153,728	143,415	147,234	150,273	210,162
5 years old	144,517	150,051	152,367	207,848	157,237
6 years old	149,334	153,004	207,222	154,616	130,938
7 years old	150,005	204,120	153,555	128,010	122,687
8 years old	194,188	147,933	124,638	117,882	101,823
9 years old	137,868	118,376	110,874	93,126	76,668
10 years old	103,060	101,643	86,154	66,396	64,698
11 years old	83,414	71,748	58,504	52,181	46,170
12 years old	58,270	45,745	43,761	35,198	38,118
13 years old	35,223	31,867	28,705	27,074	25,284
14 years old	23,542	20,034	21,214	19,773	19,772
15 years old	14,370	14,308	13,322	15,038	10,460
16 years old and greater	28,003	27,084	22,062	17,932	13,324
Total	1,924,281	1,882,901	1,778,861	1,662,157	1,582,833