Ms Donna Price:

I welcome the measures that are being introduced with regard to learner drivers following the experience of the family in Cork, where Mr. Clancy lost his wife and daughter. We have been approached by a number of approved driving instructors who have raised their concerns with the Road Safety Authority on learner drivers arriving to do their driving test unaccompanied and perhaps failing their test and leaving the centre unaccompanied. Obviously the Road Safety Authority cannot do anything about it because they are not involved in enforcement, but it is the duty of the Garda Síochána. Would the assistant commissioner like to address that point, if he is trying to do something about it?