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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: As Deputy Lowry has stated, we are saying that when people arrive in Ireland there is an inordinate amount of time before drivers, male or female, can physically start to work for the employer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: When was this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Roughly?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is not the question Deputy Lowry is asking. He is asking if a garda who is on the side of the road has access to the RSA's database that shows the owner of the car in question has applied for an NCT test.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: But will they know if a person has applied for a test?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: If An Garda Síochána can go in and look on a database and see that an NCT certificate has been issued, someone must have inputted the data onto the system. Is that Applus or the RSA?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Deputy Lowry's point is a very straightforward and common-sense one. If, through no fault of its own, the RSA has major delays, in the modern world it should be possible to input on the system that an application has been lodged with the NCT for a test. Has the RSA not even considered that given the current climate?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Currently, what system does the NCT certificate sit on? We assume the bulk of the 387,590 people currently have applications for a test, without being called. Surely, it is possible for the RSA and the NCT to input that on a system so that it will come up on An Garda Síochána's system as well when at the roadside?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Why not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That answer seems way too complicated for me. I ask Mr. Waide to listen as this is very straightforward. We request, on behalf of Deputy Lowry, that the RSA finds a mechanism whereby, for anyone who has applied for a national car test, their details are on a computer system that can be accessed by An Garda Síochána so that when a garda stops a vehicle these details can be viewed...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: One would have to walk the 109 lanes, Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: How many people are waiting for driver tests?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: How many does the RSA typically put through in a year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: How many would the RSA normally do in a week?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: So there are 14,000-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: There are 54,148 people waiting for a test and about 170,000 are put through in a year. What was the 14,000 figure at this time last year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is climbing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Some 170,000 are currently put through in a year. How many went through each year pre-Covid?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: By how much has that number increased?