Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 June 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority

9:30 am

Mr. Brendan Walsh:

As Dr. Walsh has already referred to, we have engaged in several scoping sessions on multiple learner permits. That is one of the angles we are taking a really good look at. If we see repeat offenders, we want to target them. We are well advanced regarding how we can set out the mechanism for delivering the action on multiple learner permits. My team has actually prepared a proposal, which it will discuss with the Department of Transport in the next week or so, on how to make progress on this. One component is to try to target repeat offenders. The Deputy is correct that if they are not turning up and using that to their advantage to renew their permits, it is wrong and has to be dealt with by us.