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:
Precisely. As we sit here today, there has been a 53% increase versus 2019 in the number of people on a learner permit. They will all have to transition to a full licence. We see that the number of people coming into our driver theory test centres is still increasing. We still see a high number of applications coming in. We have been looking at this since Covid. . The interpretation was that it was a Covid blip. However, the reality is that our population is young and we have a high rate of immigration. As a result, more people need a driver's licence. As I mentioned, we expect to deliver approximately 250,000 driving tests. I expect this to be the new norm. In 2019, 167,000 tests were administered.
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