A penalty point system for driving offences was introduced in Ireland in 2002. A total of 62 separate offences are currently covered, each incurring between 1 and 5 penalty points. Penalty points are endorsed by An Garda Síochána and recorded by the Department of Transport.
Penalty point offences are recorded on the offender’s driving licence and remain on the licence for a period of three years. The figures presented include offences for those who hold foreign driving licences or where no driving licence number was supplied. In those cases, the period that the offence was on the driving licence did not count down and therefore remained as a current offence up to 2013. This practice changed in 2014 whereby penalty points are now counted down.
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