Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 March 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Impact of Covid-19 on Driving Instructors: Unite the Union

Mr. Dominic Brophy:

Yes. We have raised issues with the HSE and the Health and Safety Authority, HSA. This problem is going on for a year. It is not a new problem. If one wants to go into a shopping centre one can use a toilet. Mr. Darragh Dunne, who is with me, told me that he went to get his NCT three or four days ago. He was able to sit in a waiting room due to bad weather and use the toilets if he wanted to while he was there. This is not a difficult problem to solve. Driver testers, traditionally, have their own part of the building. They do not mix with ADIs or members of the public. They have their own toilet facilities. Traditionally, members of the public and ADIs had our own facilities but we have been told that we cannot come into the building. A very important point to make is that when a driver test slot goes out, say, at 11 o'clock, if there are five testers in that building and five driver test applicants, that building empties for that three quarters of an hour to one hour. That building is empty.

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