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- 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?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Let us say, 200,000. That is still 155,000 above the norm. How will the RSA pull that back to 12 days, when Mr. Walsh says there are approximately 200,000 on the waiting list, rather than the current 25 days? That does not bear out in terms of people going up on the authority's system. It appears the current minimum is three months. In some cases that is being pushed out to six or seven...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Quarter 2 of 2023, with due respect, is the bones of nine months away. How can Mr. Walsh justify that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Why is the RSA not hiring additional staff? What is the capacity of the testing centres? There are 49 testing centres. What weekly capacity could they go to, if the RSA could hire as many staff as possible and work around the clock? Mr. Walsh tells me the authority is doing 30,000 per week. What is its maximum capacity?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: How long has Mr. Walsh been with the RSA?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Therein lies the rub. With due respect, the RSA is telling the public that it will be nine months before the waiting time gets back to 12 days. It is saying it only needs an additional 63 staff and that 22 of those are coming from Spain with the Applus+ operations - they are only coming this week. Another 44 Filipinos are coming in on work permits. When will they take up employment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is a numbers game. When will the additional five centres in Shannon, Dublin north, Cootehill, Fermoy and Castleisland be set up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is next year, again. I ask the RSA to go back to the drawing board. Nine months is not an acceptable time for people to wait. It needs to get on to the Garda and link in with its system. People are being stopped and some of them are getting three penalty points through no fault of their own. It is more difficult to get penalty points cancelled than to get them in the first place....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Applus+ has 552 employees. It has another ten on board, which would make 562. What can it take within its current 49 centres, which is 109 lanes. How many staff could it take in total?