Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

She will not be surprised, but I am sure she will come back to the Deputy.

I thank Deputy Munster for raising the issue of the driving centre in Drogheda. I will ask the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, or the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, to revert back to her on the issue of the specific site. We are making progress overall on the average waiting times for tests. It was 30 weeks in August of last year; it is now less than 20. That is still too long, but 41 additional testers have joined the RSA. A lot of extra resources are being provided. I am not familiar with the site-specific issues in Drogheda.

I thank Deputy Murnane O'Connor for again raising the issue of access to GP services. This matter came up a number of times in the course of proceedings earlier. I have outlined the work that the Minister is doing around the significant expansion in the number of training places in the various colleges and the increase in the resources being made available to the HSE. Where there is an issue with a specific location, I suggest that the Deputy liaise with the Minister and the HSE to see if a local solution can be arrived at.

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