Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
National Car Testing: Discussion
Mr. Brendan Walsh:
I would like to add that the service for driver testing was at six weeks in August last year. We have gone through an extraordinary year between staff leaving and the unprecedented level of demand for the service. We got the sanction from the Department of Transport not long after we were here in February. We have acted on that. It takes time to recruit and to go through a panel. As Ms Coleman outlined, 500 people applied. They now have to be trained properly so that they can evaluate a driver test. Unfortunately, it took a long time to get us to where we are. However, we now believe we have people in place either in training or recently introduced to the service, or who will enter training in the next couple of weeks.
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