A new report has shown that Donegal has Ireland’s lowest number of drivers with penalty points on their licence.
Some 12,885 (12.9%) of licence holders in the county had penalty points in 2017, according to the Central Statistics Office.
This was the lowest proportion in Ireland, while Wexford had the highest proportion of drivers with penalty points, at 21.5%, followed by Galway with 20.5% and Kildare and Kilkenny with 20.4% each.
The figures were released as part of the Regional SDGs Ireland 2017 report by the CSO studying 70 indicators on regional life in Ireland.
CSO Ireland
Commenting on the report, Helen Cahill, Statistician, said: “Just over one in six Irish drivers had penalty points (17.7%) in December 2017. Wexford (21.5%), Galway (20.5%) and Kildare (20.4%) had the highest proportions of drivers with penalty points. The lowest rates were in Donegal at 12.9%, Louth at 13.6% and Leitrim at 14.3%.”
The report also revealed that Donegal had the lowest proportion of local government seats held by women in 2014. Three out of 37 County Councillors are female, which represents 8.1% of representatives.
Across Ireland, one in five (20.1%) local government seats were held by a woman after the 2014 local elections. Less than 9% of seats were held by women in Donegal and Wexford.
