Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Road safety is one issue. The Minister is right; I am fully supportive of his legislation. The buck stops with the Minister regarding tackling delays in waiting times at driving test centres and the chronic shortage of driver testers. Given that he has been forthcoming with the legislation, he should have pre-empted the increase that was obviously going to occur in respect of the number of people clamouring to take tests. There is also a shortage of driving test centres. There is no driving test centre in Drogheda, which is the largest town in Ireland, and there is a waiting list of over 2,500 there. This figure has quadrupled. In other areas, the increase is even larger. What is the Minister doing about the backlog and about instructing the RSA regarding the establishment of more test centres to deal with the backlog?

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