There is no obligation to offer the 100 penalty fare, they can go direct to the court summons if they like,
1000 euro/3 months in jail
Equally where the issue involves a DSFA pass, the case can be handed over to the DSFA who can prosecute as social welfare fraud and audit the persons social welfare history and payments.
IE/DB/BE/Luas now have access to a DSFA hotline to validate passes, so any pass retained is more than likely to have been done so where the DSFA have indicated to do so.
In many cases its fairly easy to retain a pass, trainers, tracksuit, blue pass don't mix...
It won't be long before ALL DSFA passholders will be required to tag on/off if they have the new pass.
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