Mr. Sam Waide:

I reiterate that, as an organisation, we apologise for the frustration that the Deputy and his constituents feel about the driving test waiting times. Regarding the assurance we have given, we have demonstrated over the past few months that we have reduced the waiting times. I accept that, be it 20 weeks or 24 weeks, it is still unacceptable. That is why we are delivering the reductions across the country for all the test centres. We are confident that we will reduce it to ten weeks for everyone across the country by September.

On the Deputy's question about confidence that this will be delivered, as set out in our opening statement, we have conducted the largest ever recruitment exercise in the history of the RSA since it was set up in 2006. There have been more than 1,400 applicants. What is different is that we have not only interviewed significant numbers, but we have appointed and brought on board additional driver testers, on a permanent basis, which is an important point. We are training those and we can see a difference across different test centres.