From RSA website

sogood

Just saw this while looking around the RSA website. I have noticed people asking questions based around this scenario and thought this might help to answer same.
Mutual recognition and driver disqualifications

From 28 January 2010 Ireland and the UK will operate the European Convention on Driving Disqualifications. This means that a driving disqualification which is imposed to a licence holder in the UK who is resident in Ireland can be recognised here and the person will not be able to drive in Ireland. Disqualifications imposed in Ireland to licence holders resident in the UK will similarly be capable of being implemented in the UK. Only disqualifications for traffic offences committed on or after 28 January 2010 are subject to this.
Disqualifications resulting from the accumulation of penalty points will not come under this arrangement because of differences in the way the offences are dealt with in both countries. A project is underway to explore ways of including penalty points under this arrangement.

djimi

Thought that was always the case tbh.

Does that mean that someone who has 12 points on an Irish license can go get a UK license and drive on it instead?

kerry4sam

sogood wrote: »

Just saw this while looking around the RSA website. I have noticed people asking questions based around this scenario and thought this might help to answer same.
Mutual recognition and driver disqualifications

From 28 January 2010 Ireland and the UK will operate the European Convention on Driving Disqualifications. This means that a driving disqualification which is imposed to a licence holder in the UK who is resident in Ireland can be recognised here and the person will not be able to drive in Ireland. Disqualifications imposed in Ireland to licence holders resident in the UK will similarly be capable of being implemented in the UK. Only disqualifications for traffic offences committed on or after 28 January 2010 are subject to this.
Disqualifications resulting from the accumulation of penalty points will not come under this arrangement because of differences in the way the offences are dealt with in both countries. A project is underway to explore ways of including penalty points under this arrangement.

While this is good news, it is only the beginning with so much more to finalise and activate incl the penalty points accumulator. Surprised this had been so long in the organising tbh.

sogood

As you can see, this became effective from January 2010. Don't know what else has been done since then.