Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion
Mr. Mark Synnott:
Yes, there are a couple of strategies. With respect to the next intake, it is definitely in Ireland. We are also heavily advertising within the UK at the moment to see if we can get more bodies from that direction. We are also recruiting in Spain. Our expectation is that the intake in February will largely be locally recruited staff. We are also sending a team to the Philippines to see if there is more staff available. That is somewhat speculative in the sense that I am not convinced we would find somewhere for them to live if we were to recruit them.
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