Questions

438. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport if his Department has made all the necessary ICT changes to allow motor insurers access to realtime data on driver disqualifications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24393/25]

439. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport if a timeline has been jointly agreed between his Department and the insurance industry to allow motor insurers access realtime driver disqualification data; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24394/25]

440. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport the number of disqualification orders received from the Courts Service via a weekly file to date in 2025; the number that did not include the driver number of the person, to enable automatic endorsement on driver records; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24395/25]

441. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport for the relevant sections of the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023 allowing access by insurers and intermediaries to disqualification and endorsement data from the NVDF database at policy processing or renewal time; the date(s) that commencement orders were signed and provisions implemented in practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24396/25]

442. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport the number of validations that failed when an insurer attempted to validate the driver number of a disqualified driver against the National Vehicle and Driver File since 31 March 2025; the number of drivers that were advised by the insurer or broker to contact the National Driving Licence Service for the Road Safety Authority to provide a driver statement to co…

443. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport if insurers and brokers have his authority to cancel a motor insurance policy whereby the driver number cannot be validated against his Driver File database; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24398/25]

444. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 395 of 29 April 2025, how the nightly file from his Department to An Garda Síochána could include the disqualification status of every driving licence and include the driver number when many court disqualifications imposed on Irish licence holders cannot be matched to the appropriate driver record held by the Minister; and …

445. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 286 of 1 April 2025, the number of Irish licence holders who received a court driving disqualification, but a match could not be made; the number that remained on the shell record for the period of the disqualification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24400/25]

248. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport if his Department has conducted or commissioned a value for money assessment or audit of the performance of PSO buses purchased over recent years, particularly with respect to reports that some buses may have proven not to be fit for purpose and are now in storage and not in use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22919/25]

252. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 422 of 29 April 2025, to provide details on the customer demand criteria used by Dublin Bus in its service review process; whether this category refers solely to demand on existing services, or if it also includes demand for non-existing services, such as new routes or additional services on current routes; and if he will m…

270. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide an update on the procurement of the electrification of bus depots to allow for the rollout of the b-spine under the BusConnects plan in Q2 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23098/25]

271. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide an update on his Department’s engagement with the National Transport Authority regarding the creation of a transport security force, similar to the airport police and customs officers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23099/25]

19. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport the number of NCT tests carried out at centres (details provided) from 2020 to date in 2025, by year, per centre, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21424/25]

20. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport if he would consider compelling the NCT to notify motorists when their NCT is due, to give motorists a reasonable period of time to arrange a test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21425/25]

390. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport if his Department expects to be ready to provide motor insurers with a real-time view of data on disqualified drivers, held on the driver file database, in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19136/25]

391. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport if he plans to commence the relevant sections of the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023 which amended parts of the Road Traffic Act 2014, to allow motor insurers, for the purpose of issuing or renewing insurance policies, access to real-time data on endorsements including disqualifications, held on the driver file record database; and if he will make a statement o…

392. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport to provide a progress report from his engagements with organisations (details supplied) to implement the access to real-time disqualification data for insurers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19138/25]

393. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport if the driving disqualification court order information sent from the Courts Service to the National Driving Licence Service (NDLS) can only be endorsed automatically onto the driver file record database, where a driver number has been included in the order, and matches a driver record on the NVDF; the length of time that those that cannot be matched to the dri…

394. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 289 of 1 April 2025, if the National Vehicle and Driver File (NVDF) holds the driver number and disqualification status of all drivers in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19140/25]

395. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport to confirm that from March 2025, the nightly file from his Department to An Garda Siochána includes the disqualification status of every driving licence and includes the driver number; if the information is provided with a real-time view of the driving licence status, to be used by frontline Gardaí on mobility devices at the roadside; and if he will make a stat…

396. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 286 of 1 April 2025, the number of Irish licence holders included in the 'shell' record figures he supplied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19142/25]

397. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport the number of commercial fleet owners that have provided the relevant driver number or numbers when applying for or renewing a vehicle insurance policy under the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023 enacted on 31 March 2025; the number that have failed to provide this unique driver number of all drivers to be named on a policy; the number that were refused insurance…

410. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport if he will consider establishing a dedicated funding scheme to support the purchase of bicycles, e-bikes, and related safety equipment for pensioners, with the aim of promoting active travel and positive ageing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19421/25]

416. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport the status of the installation of the next generation automatic vehicle location system on existing bus services in Dublin west; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19654/25]

417. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport the status of the installation of the next generation automatic vehicle location system on bus services nationally in Dublin west; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19655/25]