Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 April 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority
Mr. Sam Waide:
At the start of this year, it was deemed as a ministerial priority. The RSA has stated a number of times the need to fund the review of this action and bring it forward. It has been a considerable number of years since the driving test was reviewed. It was a different environment 20 or 30 years ago. It is now a very different environment with regard to road users. At the heart of this, we are here to help people learn to drive. I absolutely concur that we need to ensure that it happens sooner rather than later and that we progress it. It is not just young drivers; there are people who learn to drive later in life. We want to help people learn to drive and be safer drivers when they pass their test.
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