Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 46:

In page 22, to delete line 18 and substitute the following:

“ “Disqualification of driving instructors

18A.(1) An applicant for, or the holder of, a licence shall notify the Authority”.

These amendments allow us to manage the potential disqualification of driving instructors. It effectively applies similar conditions to those that apply, I think, to taxi drivers and others in the sense of the ability to rescind or remove a licence if someone is in breach of certain basic standards. It starts with the provision of a shoulder note, as I said earlier, to change part of the text but it also brings in the "fit and proper" person provisions for driving instructors, so people with certain convictions will be barred for a certain period or for life from becoming driving instructors. This is similar, as I said, to the way we treat taxi drivers.