Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 June 2025

Committee on Transport

Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA

2:00 am

Mr. Brendan Walsh:

At the moment we have 153 active testers in the service. Of them, 41 have joined the service since the start of the year on a permanent basis. As we speak, there are 32 people in training and 20 of them will hit the service at the beginning of July while the remaining 12 will hit the service on 12 July. On 14 July, there will be a further intake of 18 driver testers, which will bring us to a total of 200. So we have the number of people. In most cases, we have offered people a centre and we are now working through the training process.

I reiterate that we normally train groups of anywhere between 12 and 15. We have made significant changes to how we train. As part of the implementation of this plan, we increased the number of locations for training which is how we are now delivering the training of 32 testers. So we have the resources we need now.