Mr. Dominic Brophy:

When the RSA appeared before the committee a few weeks ago it said it was operating at 75% of present day capacity. Three weeks on, we would imagine that 75% has decreased. In plain English, the Road Safety Authority is running out of essential workers to carry out driver tests. It has done good work and made progress on the list, but there is now a further cohort of learner drivers awaiting a driver test. We believe that essential workers who have yet to complete their EDT lessons should be allowed to complete them in line with public health advice. The public health advice has to trump everything in the middle of a pandemic, as we all know.