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

Photo of Ruairi Ó MurchúRuairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for showing up. They have put it absolutely straight to us that the stakeholders' forum is not fit for purpose. Whatever other conversations we have or whatever way we write to the RSA and the Department, we need to put on record as soon as possible that the ADIs need to be part of the wider conversation on dealing with the backlog.

I will try to deal with the backlog issue. Do the ADIs believe that more ADIs are needed? Do they think this backlog is impacting on road safety? Do they believe the fail rate will increase if we just employ extra driver testers and do nothing about ADIs, since that will create a logjam in the tube Mr. Brophy talked about earlier?

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