ANSWER: BECAUSE THERE ARE 2.3 MILLION VEHICLES ON IRISH ROADS
The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Mr. Dick Roche, T.D., announced today that the total number of licensed (taxed) vehicles at 31st December 2006 was 2,296,393.
The 2006 return continues the increase in overall vehicle volumes experienced in recent years and represents an increase of 157,713 vehicles (7.37%) on the total at 31st December, 2005.
The breakdown (details given in the attached table) includes:
· 1,778,861 private cars which represents an increase of 116,704 vehicles (7.02%) on the previous year for this category,
· 318,604 goods vehicles
· 68,137 agricultural tractors.
The trend in the total number over the period 1985 – 2006 is as follows:
1985 914,758
1990 1,054,259
1995 1,262,503
2000 1,682,221
2005 2,138,680
2006 2,296,393
The 2006 total represents an increase of over 500,000 vehicles (37%) since 2000 and an increase of over 1 million vehicles (82%) since 1995.
More detailed breakdowns based on the above totals will be compiled and published later this year in the Department's Bulletin of Vehicle and Driver Statistics 2006.
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