James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Covid-19 had many knock-on impacts across public services in the country, but the Government will be familiar with one particular area where there was an impact, namely driving tests. Unfortunately, people are waiting an extremely long period to get driving tests across many areas of Munster. In places like Wilton, Mallow and Dungarvan, which are very important centres in my constituency of Cork East, it will be well into December and even January. What proactive measures are being taken by the Government to deal with this issue that, unfortunately, was caused by letting go driving testers who were on temporary contracts in August of this year? Will the Government undertake any action to deal with the issue? As a Deputy in a rural constituency, this is an extremely important issue for rural Ireland and it must be dealt with urgently.

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