Mr. Eddie Burke:

I would not be able to go through it with the Senator in detail but I am aware that the information is on the website of the Road Safety Authority. There is a link. The procedure is explained step by step. A driver must return the UK licence and it has to be checked to ensure it is valid in all senses of the word. There is a fee involved. The last I saw, the turnaround time was around ten days. That was probably three weeks ago, maybe four. It is important to note that, of the 70,000 licence holders I mentioned, approximately 55,000 have changed already. That is only an estimate because we have no hard and fast figure. I take the Senator's point that this is another layer on top of an already difficult situation but I have not heard that it is causing problems. The last turnaround time I heard was ten days.