85% of motorists in Dundalk and Drogheda never actually received their penalty points
Local motorists could be the biggest losers if the government proceeds with plans to overhaul the penalty point regime.
Justice Minister Alan Shatter said yesterday that an action plan, agreed with the Garda Commissioner, had been drawn up and agreed upon.
If penalty points are more strictly enforced then local motorists will take the biggest hit, having avoided the most points and fines in the country in recent years.
In the Drogheda and Dundalk District Court area, only 15% of licence numbers were recorded, meaning the remaining 85% on whom penalty points were imposed never incurred them in real terms.
This compares with 60% in the Dublin Metropolitan Region and was, understandably, the lowest in the country.
Nationally some €7.5m in fines revenue was also foregone when court summonses that should have called motorists to court to pay the financial penalty and incur the points never reached the motorists in question.
