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 Jerry ButtimerJerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In the submission to the Department before Christmas the RSA referred to recruiting 80 testers on 18-month contracts and continuing overtime until December 2021, which it did, or recruiting 100 testers on 18-month contracts and ceasing overtime from July 2021. Could these be broken down into shorter term contracts to hire additional testers?

With regard to the driver theory test, Mr. Naughton referred to 1,300 trial online theory tests taken for the bus and truck driver test. Why are we waiting until June to roll this out when we should be increasing capacity online now?

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