Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 27 June 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority
9:30 am
Mr. Brendan Walsh:
Let me answer as quickly as I can. Deputy Munster has written to me on several occasions on this matter. I can assure the Deputy that, last week, I sat with my team again to look at where we have issues around test centres. We are working with the OPW to try to find a permanent location for the people of Drogheda. It is a town I know very well and visit quite frequently.
In relation to travel, the quickest answer on that is if we cannot treat everybody who is doing a test the same way, we may disadvantage people who are sitting in a very large traffic build-up, maybe for a long period of time. That would mean the subsequent test-----