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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: On top of what? How many are there now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: What is the complement required to allow the backlog to be cleared and get to the ten-week target consistently? Is it 170 testers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: These would be 170 permanent testers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Our population has gone up 50% in 25 years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: This is the reference that Deputy Fitzmaurice had.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Equally, we have people coming into the system but people wanting to learn to be bus drivers or truck drivers and wanting to go from a B licence to an A licence, or whatever.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Why in that case would permanent driver testers not be sought rather than temporary testers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Application, however, has just been made for temporary testers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Longer term, and the Central Statistics Office is consulted and projections are done and so on, how many permanent testers does the system need?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: At least.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: If we wished to get to a deadline of five weeks rather than ten, should the number of testers then be increased to 180 or 190? It does not seem that any time soon there will be testers sitting around drinking tea while waiting for people to turn up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Turning to Mr. Synnott, his service will have 610 people when the last 14 come out of training. Where does the staffing level of his company need to be in the long term?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Mr. Synnott would like to take on 30 more temporary people or thereabouts?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Mr. Synnott's system pays for itself. Does the driver licence testing service pay for itself as well? In the context of money coming in for these services, it is self-funding. It is not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I get that. All I am saying about the driver licence testing system is that it is not costing the State money. It is self-funding, so it should be producing an efficient service because people are paying for it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I will let Deputy James O'Connor back in in a minute. To pose a final question to Mr. Waide, concerning road safety, it seems we are, unfortunately, going in the wrong direction. January was worse than it has been in a while. Last year was worse than the previous one. I ask Mr. Waide to address this point. I call Mr. Walsh to make his point first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Okay. Equally, though, there will be people who have driver licences who may want new licences-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: -----which will add to the overall demand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Those are current figures, so 40% of driver fatalities were not wearing seat belts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: In many cases, these would be relatively modern cars that would have safety mechanisms to beep if drivers do not wear seat belts and make annoying noises and all the rest of it. These are, in many cases, not very old cars.