Ms Moyagh Murdock:

I will take Deputy Murphy's question first. We fully recognise it is not acceptable for people to apply for a driver test in order to renew their licence. We recently got sanction to employ an additional 67 driver testers on foot of the expectation that the Clancy legislation will come into effect shortly, hopefully tonight if that is possible. It is holding everything up. We have been involved in a big recruitment programme and we will be able to target these people effectively. We were - to be upfront about it - at risk of bringing it into disrepute if we were making people come for tests and could not give them a test in an appropriate level of time. We welcome that sanction from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and we will be moving ahead in ensuring that everybody who has reached the level of competency necessary to pass the test will be given that test in a prompt manner. We will also work to ensure that people who have been driving for a period of years without taking a test, engage with a driver instructor, because they will fail the test if they come forward at this stage, having driven for such a long period of time.

The other question was for the gardaí.