Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 November 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes

9:30 am

Photo of Verona MurphyVerona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Spain, Italy and Portugal, for instance, have recognised the driving licence for drivers from Ukraine. We have an EU driving licence system, yet we cannot seem to get the RSA to make a move on that. What I have been hearing from colleagues, Deputies and people within the sector is that the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment has no difficulty granting the permits; the difficulty is with the licensing sector. Surely in this day and age and the crisis in which we find ourselves, bearing in mind we have the ongoing Brexit process, and God knows where it is going to end up, Covid-19, and the haulage fraternity has kept the country going, should there not be collaboration and joined-up thinking between these Departments to ensure that sector can operate properly?

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