DONEGAL was amongst the worst Garda districts in the country, recording a 123 per cent increase in the number of drivers caught driving without insurance between 2023 and 2024.
Figures provided to MEP Cynthia Ní Mhurchú show that there were significant increases in the number of vehicles seized right across the country from a driver without an approved policy of insurance.
Ms Ní Mhurchú, who is also a member of the EU Transport Committee, has called for urgent measures to be implemented to crackdown on driving without insurance.
She will raise the price of insurance for Irish motorists in the Transport Committee of the European Parliament and has called for urgent measures to address the spike in the number of drivers caught driving without insurance in every Garda district in Ireland.
The Ireland South MEP has called for the immediate implementation of the Action Plan for Insurance Reform promised in the Programme for Government.
Ní Mhurchú described the Garda figures, which are provided in a table below, as shocking.
Galway was amongst the worst Garda districts in the country recording a 199 per cent increase in the number of drivers caught driving without insurance between 2023 and 2024.
The Dublin South Central Garda district recorded a 166 per cent increase and Kerry recorded a 115.7 per cent increase in drivers caught driving without insurance between 2023 and 2024.
Garda figures show that between Q2 2023 and Q2 2024 there were significant increases in the number of vehicles detained by Gardaí across every county under Section 41 of the Roads Traffic Act 1994 “from a driver without an approved policy of insurance”.
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Posted: 10:04 am February 21, 2025
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