Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

The waiting list can be cleared within a few months, but if the Garda starts to enforce the regulations, which it has not been doing and which has never been done, that would affect 430,000 people. That was not the focus for the Road Safety Authority, which worked on this matter every day, the Garda or ourselves. The people who work on this matter every day did not focus on that issue. It is easy in hindsight to say there are 420,000 waiting for tests. On the question as put by Deputy Gilmore, it is not the fact that we have discussed this issue here for years.

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