The Minister for Justice has said the road safety message is still not getting through after the latest garda figures showed a huge rise in traffic offences.
The garda report has shown an increase of 51% in road traffic offences.
General road offences increased by 32%, while there has also been a rise in the number of people drink driving and not taxing or insuring their cars.
Michael McDowell said it was clear that the road safety message was not getting through and that more than 350 people a day received penalty points in the first month of the new fixed penalty system.
The annual garda report gives a more detailed and comprehensive outline of crime statistics for the year 2005.
It shows that while serious headline crime increased 2.7% in 2005, non-headline offences were up over 12%.
The largest increase was in road traffic offences, with drunken driving up 10%, tax and insurance offences up 10%, driving licence offences up 16% and general road offences up by almost a third.
There was also a recorded decrease in the number of weapons seized in spite of Operation Anvil.
And even though gardaí recovered about the same amount of stolen property in 2005 as they did in 2004, the amount returned to people dropped from 8% to 4%.
Mr McDowell sad this was because many retail stores are reporting theft for insurance purposes but not doing enough to prevent it.
