Over three quarters (77.1 per cent) of the penalty point endorsement notices issued in 2014 were for speeding, CSO figures show.
During 2014, a total of 233,130 penalty point endorsement notices were issued, an increase of 10.8 per cent on the previous year.
Men incurred more penalty point endorsement notices than women in 2014. In cases where gender was recorded, men incurred 122,808 (62.6 per cent) of penalty point endorsement notices while women incurred 73,397 (37.4 per cent). In cases where gender was not recorded, 36,925 notices were issued.
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Some 672,015 penalty points were issued in 2014, up 5.2 per cent from 639,034 in 2013.
In Dublin 168,264 penalty points were issued followed by Cork 76,902, Kildare 36,572 and Galway 37,974.
Galway saw the highest increase in penalty points issued, up 20 per cent from 31,749 in 2013.
The lowest number of penalty points issued were Leitrim 5,561 and Longford 6,897.
Penalty point offences are recorded on the offender’s driving licence and remain on the licence for a period of three years.
Last year the Road Safety Authority cracked down on scams which involved drivers holding both a foreign and an Irish driving licence presenting the foreign one to avoid incurring penalty points or a disqualification on their Irish licence.
Figures show a 80 per cent drop in the numbers, from 376, 936 in 2013 to 76,266 in 2014.
For 2013, the figures presented include offences for those who hold foreign driving licences or where no driving licence number was supplied.
In those cases, the period that the offence was on the current driving licence did not count down and therefore remained as a current offence.
Speeding accounted for the highest amount of penalty points issued (179,822) followed by driving a vehicle while holding a mobile phone (26,337) and for adults who fail to wear a safety belt (5557)
Men and women aged between 31 to 35 received the most penalty point endorsement notices with 10,642 issued to women and 16,382 issued to men.
Men aged between 31 and 35 were the cohort to receive the highest amount of penalty point notices while women aged under 21 received the lowest amount (1,028).