246:. As a result, on 15 January 2014, the content of Lawlor's bill was inserted as an amendment in the Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013, creating a new criminal offence of interfering with the odometer of a mechanically propelled vehicle. The maximum penalty for the offence is a Class C fine (up to €2,500) or up to three months imprisonment. With this amendment in place Lawlor noted that Cartell had been responsible for bringing the issue to his attention, then withdrew his private member’s bill. The bill had its second reading on 21 January 2014 and on 25 February, was enacted as the Road Traffic Act 2014. The new offence became law as Section 14 of the Act.
266:, which allows instant checks to be made on any suspect vehicle. Currently any search done on an Irish-registered vehicle will not reveal if the vehicle has been reported stolen. Around 10,000 cars are stolen every year in Ireland and about 2,000 of these are never recovered. Currently buyers of used cars have no way to check against theft records, and hundreds of buyers a year lose an average of from €10,000 to €20,000 after buying stolen cars which are then discovered and returned to their original owner. The Garda claim that they cannot pass on the information because of
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January 2014, opposition TD Timmy Dooley (FF) raised the issue in the Dáil. The then Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar (FG) responded by announcing he was set to introduce “Death Certificates” for vehicles written off as the result of collision damage and to appoint the Road Safety Authority to
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article provoked an investigation by the Garda Siochána, Vehicle
Registration Unit, Road Safety Authority and Revenue Commissioners. This resulted in a change to legislation requiring that from September 2010 all imported vehicles must be taken to a National Car Test Centre for inspection before
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The firm has an agreement with HPI UK, a similar company based in the United
Kingdom, to allow finance, ownership and insurance checks to be carried out on vehicles imported into Ireland from the UK. It also has access to the UK National Mileage Register.
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Regulation of Written off vehicles in Ireland estimating there were over 200,000 write offs in the Irish fleet at any time. A subsequent article in the Irish Examiner reported that six deaths a year caused by written off cars
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TD as the Road
Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2012. On 17 December, the bill passed the first stage in the approval process. Meanwhile, Lawlor continued to press the government on the issue and managed to bring it to the attention of transport minister
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checking company which commenced trading in 2006. It operates an online service to allow prospective vehicle purchasers to verify the history of a vehicle before purchasing. The checks available include details of finance problems,
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In July 2016, the company welcomed reports that
Minister for Transport, Shane Ross (Ind), brought new legislation to cabinet to compel insurers to notify his Department of Category A and Category B write-offs.
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Checks to identify vehicles written off by an insurance company using the Motor
Insurance Anti-Fraud and Theft Register Ireland, an initiative begun by Cartell based on its experience with the UK equivalent
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oversee a new process of independently verifying repaired vehicles before they are returned to the roads (Parliamentary
Debates, Wednesday, 15 January 2014, Written Answer No. 963).
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