60k ‘credit card’ licences on roads despite delays

Almost 60,000 credit card driving licences are now in use since the system went live at the start of the year.

The Road Safety Authority said more than 2,000 plastic licences are being issued per day, despite hitches that have resulted in delays of up to five weeks in some counties.

“There have been some initial technical difficulties in the first few weeks of the transition from the old, paper-based driving licence to the new EU-style plastic card driving licences,” said an RSA spokesperson. “The technical issues related to delays in data transfer, poor quality photographs and sizing of application forms printed by some customers.