Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We have a problem. There are 71,554 people waiting for a driving test nationally and 4,853 are waiting in County Kerry alone. The average waiting time for a test is 30 weeks. Killarney has the second highest in the State at 43 weeks and it is 32 weeks in Tralee. I am absolutely inundated with emails and phone calls from students, young people starting out, their parents, grandparents, aunties and uncles. These are people who want to work, to go to school or college and they need a licence. They need to get on the road. We need to give them a chance. It seems impossible to get on top of this list. Some Members might not be old enough to remember but there was a time, which I remember my late mother talking about, when there was an amnesty for drivers licences and people were literally given a driver's licence.

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