Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 June 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority

9:30 am

Mr. Brendan Walsh:

On the number of people who do not show up, let me put the number the Deputy quoted, 6,000, into context. This year, we forecast that we will deliver around 270,000 tests. Therefore, 6,000, as a percentage, is quite low, although it is a concern. Over the past 12 months, we have introduced a series of new technological advances within the testing service that have brought our utilisation of available slots up from 94% to 98%. Where somebody chooses not to attend at test or where we have advance notice that somebody cannot attend, we put it back into the system immediately to allow somebody to log on immediately to avail it.