Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I agree with the Deputy's latter comments on safety. To return to what we were discussing earlier, safety should be our first consideration in all of these issues. To clarify, part of the problem here was that the RSA made an adjustment to the text regarding W licences on its website last year which garnered attention in recent days. It was an attempt to clarify an interpretation around this licence category but it may have caused unintentional confusion. The RSA has removed the amended wording from its website. That may have been the source of some of the confusion here. Hopefully a lot of this will be helped by the passing of the new licence directive by the EU, expected later this year. That will provide us with the best opportunity to realign or modernise the W licence category in whatever way we want.

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