Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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The waiting times for driving testing have been an issue. The Department is in constant contact with the RSA, for which driving testers is an operational matter. With regard to any request that has come to the Department for extra resourcing for this, we are in contact with the RSA to try to reduce the driving test waiting times, which have come down. It is not perfect, but they have reduced throughout the country. We will be liaising with the RSA on its driving tester requirements. Any request that comes into us has been granted. Like everything else throughout the country with Covid, we have to assess where we are on looking at the waiting times and whether they are being reduced or whether more staff are required. These are the decisions the RSA has to make. We are putting pressure on to reduce the waiting times and get people through the testing system as quickly as possible.