Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In addition to that, and this again comes back to young drivers, I understand the RSA is currently looking at the training of young drivers and the syllabus that is there.

I recently met the Professional Driving Instructors Association. The syllabus has been the same for approximately the past decade. It needs to be reviewed and work needs to be done on it. Is there any consideration of, for instance, the number of mandatory lessons that young people take? It is currently 12. How does that operate? Has it been reviewed? I do not want to be prescriptive about it but should we consider having young drivers do a number of additional lessons, perhaps after the first year of driving, to ensure that any bad habits they may have developed in their first year are corrected? We should deal with issues like that where we can intervene in time. As we see from the data, an awful lot of the people involved in collisions are younger drivers. I am not saying they are causing all the collisions; that is not the case or we cannot say that definitively. However, when they are involved in more of the collisions, it indicates there may be issues that need to be dealt with. I would like to get information on that.