Almost €50m in court fines not yet recovered

A third of the value of fines imposed by the courts over the last six years has not been recovered, as yet.

Some 462,000 fines were handed down, worth almost €147m, between January 2011 and December 2016.

A total of 197,000 fines were not paid with €48.5m still outstanding, according to the data recorded on the Courts Service Case Tracking System (CCTS).