Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
National Car Testing: Discussion
Mr. Brendan Walsh:
What I can share with the Senator is that my team and I have recently started a process, on the back of ongoing discussions with the Department of Transport, of looking at the entire driver testing curriculum from the education side all the way through to when you surrender your licence, at whatever age, if you are unable to drive. A particular concern of mine relates to ensuring that all those being tested or educated have safe mechanisms available to them and that there is a process available. We will come back to the Senator on the specific cases. If they have been reported to us, we will come back to her on them.
I also believe there is a situation where they may have reported perhaps to the business that may represent that individual, which we may not have sight of. We will take that point away with us because I am acutely aware that anyone who is in a car on their own, whether they are male or female-----
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