Gardaí drop vehicle insurance database after errors

Gardaí have had to drop a motor insurance database after it wrongly recorded almost half of all vehicles as being without insurance.

The motor insurance IT database enables garda vehicles attached with an automatic number plate- recognition system to scan and identity vehicles that do not have insurance.

According to documents obtained by the RTÉ This Week programme, the system had to be “pulled” because it was not being managed properly.