Questions

157. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Transport to consider extending the list of recognised States in the exchange of a foreign driving licence to an Irish driving licence to include the United States, in order to facilitate new residents and returning Irish citizens to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26470/25]

158. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Transport if consideration would be given to the introduction of a reciprocal licensing agreement between the United States and Ireland in the exchange of a foreign driving licence to an Irish driving licence, in view that there is no such agreement in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26471/25]

159. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Transport if consideration would be given to extending the list of provinces in Canada where you can exchange a Canadian driving licence for an Irish driving licence, to facilitate new residents and Irish citizens returning to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26472/25]

26. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Transport if they can please clarify if there are any new changes to the process of renewing an individual’s driver’s license, especially in regard to individuals who are living with multiple sclerosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26159/25]

274. Deputy Richard O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Transport the reason the waiting time for the reissuing of a Irish licence is so long for persons returning from abroad who have held a Irish driving licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25251/25]

275. Deputy Richard O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Transport the reason the original driver foreign licence must be confiscated, leaving the applicant without a licence and therefore unable to drive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25252/25]

276. Deputy Richard O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Transport if a provision for a temporary or interim driver licence will be put in place as is standard practice in other countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25253/25]

325. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Transport if he will consider awarding Irish driving licences to Irish expats returning to Ireland, who are competent drivers, and need renewed driving licences and who already have full driving licences from the country they are returning from; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26013/25]

36. Deputy Noel McCarthy asked the Minister for Transport if his Department is considering any extensions to the amount of time that citizens of other countries are allowed to drive on their existing foreign driving licence; if it is envisaged that further recognised states will be added to the foreign driving licence exchange list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24817/25]

377. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to correspondence in respect of driving licence exchanges (details supplied); if he will provide a schedule of jurisdiction that he has developed a licence exchange agreement with and if he has plans to further expand the exchange agreement. [23480/25]

392. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Transport to consider improving the driving licence conversion for people holding US driving licences, to enable those people to continue driving in Ireland after one year lapses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23700/25]

426. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Transport if an issue in respect of a driving licence can be examined (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24333/25]

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]

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]

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]

65. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Transport if he will consider making the acceptance of cash and/or postal orders mandatory for the NDLS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22250/25]

381. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Transport his views on introducing a flexible and practical system for recognising commercial truck and machinery licences issued in New Zealand, particularly in cases where an Irish licence holder has resided abroad for more than 10 years; if he will review the possibility of a competency or theory test pathway, similar to the system in New Zealand, for individuals see…

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…

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]

443. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Transport the number of applications for driving licence restoration that were granted, by county, in each calendar year from 2010 to date in 2025, as recorded by the National Driving Licence Service, in tabular form. [19862/25]

444. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide a breakdown of the number of driving licence disqualifications, by county, that were granted in each calendar year from 2010 to date in 2025, as recorded by the National Driving Licence Service, in tabular form. [19863/25]

445. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Transport for each year from 2010 to date in 2025, of the successful applications for driving licence restorations recorded by the National Driving Licence Service, the number of cases in which the applicant had received a second or additional disqualification order of two years or more within the ten years prior to their application for driving licence restoration. […

448. Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Transport his plans to expand the list of countries with which the Department facilitate the transfer/exchange of international driving licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19888/25]