Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

I could not find words to describe the way I felt on the last occasion I spoke. I hope the intervening period has given me sufficient inspiration to come up with the right words to describe this Bill. Here we have a monument to the Government's incompetence and ineptitude. The numbers on the waiting lists for driving tests in recent years have shown that not only has the Government been oblivious to what was happening but also in this legislation it is incapable of prescribing some means of resolving the problem. We are approaching a general election, and how quickly this will occur only those on the other side of the House can tell us.

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