Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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That is an awful long time for youngsters who have their lessons done and who have done all that it is required, including the theory test and so on. All Mr. Walsh can tell me at this point is that he hopes the thing will be in order by the middle of next year, the middle of 2024. God almighty, that is like the story, leave horse until you get grass. It is not good enough. If Mr. Walsh cannot not do something urgently about it, about people waiting for three and six months, and is telling me that it will be the middle of next year, then he had better get out of it all together. On behalf of the people who have done their 12 lessons and who have already been waiting for nine months, or for 12 months in many instances, I am calling on the Minister to enact some emergency legislation to give them a licence until the NDLS can give them a test. What is there now is not acceptable.