Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 March 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Pre-legislative Scrutiny of Road Traffic (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019

Photo of Kieran O'DonnellKieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will put it to the committee today that we write to the Department of Transport asking it to expedite the provision of these 40 driver testers to bring it to 80 additional driver testers. The number will then be 218. How quickly can the RSA have these 80 additional testers in place if it gets the sanction? If they are in place and the level 5 restrictions are lifted, how quickly can the 218 driver testers reduce the backlog of more than 100,000 waiting on driver tests, many of whom are young people? It has huge implications for jobs and cost of insurance. Insurance could be reduced by between 30% and 80% for a young driver.

Can Mr. Naughton give me the logistics of getting sanction, having the additional driver testers in place and having things operational, so that the waiting list is reduced from 20 weeks to ten weeks? How quickly can the RSA can do that?

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