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

Mr. Declan Naughton:

We have had 1,300 or so online tests for trucks and buses since the beginning of December. That has been really successful. Obviously there have been issues in terms of evaluating the applications. We want to make sure that security, invigilation and connectivity are secure and adequate and that any learnings coming out of that will be applied to the car tests when we roll it out. On foot of that, we are also having conversations about how to roll this out for car tests. While most of the conversation during the last couple of weeks and months has been around additional capacity, we have also been having conversations about the online capacity. Currently, the plan is that by June, we should be able to roll out some capacity for cars. Our expectation is that we will be able to do about 1,000 a month. That is why the Deputy will understand why we concentrated on the much higher numbers available in the centres.

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