Mr. Declan Naughton:

Setting up the online driver theory test for car drivers requires a certain technical infrastructure and invigilators. The Senator will appreciate that, from an invigilation and anti-fraud point of view, an online test is a much more involved process than doing the test in the test centre. The 1,300 trial tests were for bus and truck drivers. The numbers for car drivers will be some 100,000 per month, which is much greater than already undertaken with the bus and truck theory tests. The volumes will be greater and, therefore, the infrastructure and capacity needed will be greater. This is why it will be at least June before we could do that.