Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

I will defer to my colleague on the total amount. Apart from the reduction, a special grant of €20 million was given last year to reduce driving test waiting times to ten weeks and a target of eight weeks was achieved. Most of that grant went to that project. This amount could not be repeated this year and we did not need to repeat it. Apart from that, the budget of the Road Safety Authority is similar to last year so this particular area will not be affected.

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