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. Brendan Walsh:

We are working with the Department of Transport on additional sanction for 40 temporary testers. If we are successful in securing those testers, we will move to recruit them immediately. We estimate that we may be able to start that process in March if sanction is granted by the Department. If we recruit in March and work through the training and deployment process, we will have individuals deployed into the testing environment by October. That would mean we would start to deal with the backlog from October. Those 40 testers would give us the ability to get the service back to the ten-week window relating to the SLA at some point in the middle of 2024.

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