The Minister for Transport, Mr Brennan, this evening insisted that motorists caught speeding will not avoid penalty points.
Mr Brennan met with senior gardaí and the Minister for Justice, Mr McDowell, today after it was yesterday revealed the force was experiencing difficulties implementing the scheme, which was introduced last October.
Answering questions in the Dáil this evening, Mr Brenan said he had been assured at the meeting that there was a total commitment to implement the system.
He told Fine Gael's Mr Paul Connaughton that there were problems but they were "being ironed out", adding that the Garda "doing their best".
Today's meeting followed the "leaking" of an internal Garda audit that stated motorists who refused to pay their speeding fines were likely to escape prosecution and would be "rewarded" for doing so by not incurring penalty points on their licences.
The Garda report also suggested up to 2,000 speeding offenders could escape prosecution.
According to the report, this was because the penalties office was not equipped to process the offenders' summonses within the statutory six-month time-frame.
The audit stated that gardaí were not coping with the system which was "nearing collapse" and "will require immediate attention".
The report also claimed the computer system, which will eventually be used to process points would not be ready for use for almost 18 months.