System to check motorists' insurance details 'really is a gamechanger'  

The new technology has seen the seizure of 7,307 vehicles since the start of the year, gardaí said, including 1,840 vehicles in April alone, with all of those seizures relating to no insurance being in place.

The introduction of a new mobile system to allow gardaí check motorists’ insurance details will be a “gamechanger” in terms of roads policing, the head of the Motor Insurers’ Bureau of Ireland (MIBI) has said.

The new system sees daily data sharing between the MIBI and the gardaí, coupled with automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology, and a smartphone system allowing gardaí to check a vehicle’s insurance status while it is in motion, The new will predominantly be deployed at checkpoints, however.