Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 September 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

National Car Testing: Discussion

Mr. Brendan Walsh:

It is, and this could never have been considered. This aspect is not going to be in the data from the Central Statistics Office, CSO, or shown in our traditional ways of forecasting. What we do see these data reflected in, though, is in those people applying for their first-time permit and under tuition in the context of the essential driver training lessons. Again, we are exploring these additional data points and looking at these helps me to pick up the net inward migration, which, let us be honest, we need from a workforce perspective.