Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Repeated complaints about the appalling level of customer service being delivered to the motorists were commonplace. We eventually got signs put up on the road, not on the main road but on the by-road heading into the state. I saw one yesterday morning thrown in a ditch with a stone keeping it standing. That is the way the signs are being operated. I am sorry I did not take a picture of it. That is how the Department is operating the NDLS centre. That is the respect it has for the customers in Ireland. To hell with them. It is outrageous. There have been repeated complaints. In 2014, I tabled a parliamentary question to the then Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, who is now Taoiseach, which revealed to me that the NDLS comprises three separate companies, all of which appear to be incapable of working efficiently with each other. I asked a direct parliamentary question to the Minister at the time about this farce of an operation which revealed, to my genuine shock, that there are three companies involved in the delivery of the service. There are three companies involved in the NDLS driver testing centres. Where are the Government rules on this? I do not know how the then Minister, Deputy Varadkar, managed to keep a straight face when he indicated to me it was to ensure a more efficient and cost-efficient service.

I am being distracted. I did not distract other Deputies.

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