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. Brendan Walsh:

That is one of the priorities of the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, has with us. We refer to it as the multiple learner permit issue. We will put in place a structure that will ensure a person would not be able to pass a particular number of learner permits without having sat a driver's test. If someone fails a test today, there is no requirement for him or her to go back and do the essential driver training, EDT. Our vision is that this person would go back into that way of education again and try to work out why he or she failed. My team and I are well down the road of developing a concept. We are working with the Department of Transport on that. We have some high-level recommendations and views we want to work through and stress out. From the RSA's perspective, we have quite a high system dependency that needs to be changed. We have ten systems that feed into the licensing system, which will have to be amended and changed. That will take time but it is one of the our priorities. Certainly, from my own perspective it is one of my top three priorities.

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