Results 3,961-3,980 of 26,006 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Could the RSA make a specific request to the Departments of Transport and Public Expenditure and Reform to allow it to extend the contracts, given that it is under such extreme pressure? I expect that many of the 35 people will be reapplying for the jobs when they could instead be performing driving tests with young people who are looking to get their driver licences. This is difficult to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Why did the RSA not foresee and plan for this last year? Why are we here today arguing the toss on whether it will bring back highly qualified testers to deal with the backlog?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: With all due respect, Mr. Waide cannot blame the third level education system for the RSA's backlog.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: With due respect, that should have been foreseen as well. Cars are not entering the country as quickly as they used to and people are holding onto older vehicles. Many more cars are now aged four years or over. The NCT issue is similar to the driving test issue. I call Deputy O'Connor.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is the priority list the by-product of a severe backlog-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: -----and the RSA has devised something to try to remove the immediate pressure? It is a symptom of a serious backlog that should never have built up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is great Mr. Waide and Mr. Walsh came in. We are here today because the public has been on to us about the delays. It should have been foreseen but we are where we are. I want us to get to a point of having an action plan to reduce waiting times. I will take the issues in order. Mr. Walsh mentioned there are 552 testers working in NCT testing centres. How many were there this time...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is a drop of 53. That is a significant figure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Had it gone from 595 to 552?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is still a significant drop. That is a drop of 43 or 7%. Coming out of a pandemic after which there was going to be more pressure on and having gone from 1.39 million to 1.5 million vehicles, an increase of more than 100,000, will the witnesses explain how 43 testers were lost in NCT test centres?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: When were they lost?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The authority has 552 and wants to get 615; 63 is the differential there. There are 22 coming from Spain, ten of whom started this week and 12 will start next week. They are very late to the table. In that 63, are the 22 from Spain included?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: So you are down then to 41.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Will those 41 come from the Philippines?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: When were those work permits applied for?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Why did the RSA only start advertising in July? If the number fell from 595 to 552, therein lies a serious element of the problem. Yet, the RSA only started advertising for staff last July and only applied for the visas for the Filipino nationals to come in in September. Of the 22 staff from Spain, 12 are only on the plane over today. With due respect, this does not stand up. There are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That still gives you 190,000 over and above.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thought it was-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: So the 355,000-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: When did the RSA start advertising in the state?