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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (7 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 748. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a detailed plan on how the National Training Fund will be expanded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53521/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (7 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 749. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of supporting higher education institutions in developing on campus student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53522/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (7 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 750. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are statistics on the uptake of the rent-a-room scheme with particular reference to students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53523/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (7 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 751. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is sufficient support in place to assist mature learners to attend further and higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53524/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: I thank everyone sincerely for being here, especially PARC. There is a loophole whereby learner drivers can continually renew their permits without taking a test. I would like the Department to give Ms Gray an answer on when that loophole is going to be closed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: I welcome the confirmation that in order to get your third learner permit, you will have to take a test, but I am frustrated at the delay. There was a commitment made that when the average waiting time for driving tests came down to ten weeks, this would be enacted without delay. That target was reached at the end of August and we are now in October. I want to convey the urgency required...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: The Garda does not have access to that file. Am I correct in saying it is owned by the Department of Transport?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: I have been asking the Minister for justice since July why it has not been implemented and we have not been given a reason. Why is that information not being shared? The obvious question is whether this has an impact on road safety. Does it, for instance, interfere with automatic number plate recognition or speed camera vans? I do not know why it has not been progressed, but I also do not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: I want to go back to the representatives An Garda Síochána. It was mentioned that the NVDF is not connected to the mobility app. In replies to parliamentary questions I have tabled in respect of disqualified drivers, it has been stated that An Garda Síochána has access to the NVDF as part of its mobility strategy. I am looking for clarity on that. How do front-line...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: Does An Garda Síochána have access to data on all the disqualified drivers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: For all for all drivers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: I am still trying to get clarity here. As Ms Gray said earlier, only 4% of drivers who are disqualified in court surrender their licences. The information is transferred from the Courts Service to the Department of Transport's NVDF database. That is then used to inform the mobility app. Is An Garda Síochána getting all the information it needs to inform the mobility app and to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: It is a very simple question that I am looking for clarity on. For all of those disqualified drivers, whether they surrender their licences or not, does An Garda Síochána have enough information at the roadside to then identify and prosecute them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: Do Dr. Coxon understand why that sounds so shocking?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: I have only 30 seconds left. I am shocked that Mr. Walsh is talking about data sharing for weeks, particularly when for years the issue of the non-surrender of licences in court has been highlighted. Responses to successive parliamentary questions have indicated that it is not an issue and that it does not mean we cannot stop disqualified drivers on the road

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: Not all of them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: That is not good enough. The responses to parliamentary questions I tabled say that the holders of foreign licences and those who never had licences cannot be identified, and I understand that. What I do not understand, however, is that there has been an acceptance of people not surrendering their licences when disqualified drivers who cannot be identified are on our roads.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: I will read from the answer I received recently to a parliamentary question, which states: "Failing to surrender a licence following disqualification is also an offence and is a matter for the Garda Síochána." Just 4% of people in court surrendered their licences. From the answer to another parliamentary question, I believe one person was fined in recent years, back in 2022. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: I recognise it is a huge amount of work. That is why I am saying I think this would be more efficient. It would be useful to have the data Mr. Walsh has just referenced, so we understand what we are not capturing. The Department should be transparent with us about what those numbers are, and then I will not have to ask so many parliamentary questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: I think Mr. Walsh understands what I am trying to get at.