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Fuel, Vehicles and Safety

Traffic has increased since the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions but remains below 2019 figures

CSO statistical release, , 11am

June 2022 autodiesel volumes down 2% on June 2021

Fuel excise clearances

Source: Office of the Revenue Commissioners

Clearances of autodiesel in June 2022, at 298 million litres, were 2% lower than in June 2021.

Clearances of petrol in June 2022, at 79 million litres, matched that of June 2021.

More detailed information can be found in the full release: Fuel Excise Clearances June 2022

Statistics on the volume of fuel clearances covered by excise taxes are collected by the Revenue Commissioners. Clearances reflect the excise duties paid on oil removed from tax warehouses. This data provides a proxy for sales and the associated level of consumption, but they do not reflect actual consumption

Figure 2.1 Fuel excise clearances, 2019 to 2022
Table 2.1 Monthly excise clearances of autodiesel and unleaded petrol, 2019 to 2022

Vehicles Licensed

Source: Department of Transport

There were 15,078 new private cars and 4,118 used (imported) private cars licensed in July 2022. Compared to July 2021, this was a decrease of 25% for new private cars and a fall of 26% for used private cars.

See full release Vehicles licensed for the first time July 2022

Figure 2.2 Number of new and secondhand private cars licensed, 2019 to 2022

Road Fatalities

Source: Road Safety Authority

There were 11 fatalities on Irish roads in July 2022 compared with 17 in the same month in 2021, 10 in 2020 and 8 in 2019.

Note: Data is provisional.

More detailed statistics can be found under “Data”.

Table 2.2 Number of road fatalities per month, 2019 to 2022

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