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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is slightly off-topic and the witnesses may not have the data to hand but as a committee we cannot engage with the RSA without bringing up driver licences and waiting times. What is the position at the moment? How is the RSA on resources? Where is it at generally?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That was up at----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is it down to six weeks now for the driving test?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Can the RSA bring the waiting time down further?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is the waiting time at pre-Covid levels?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: What about the driver theory tests?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is there a backlog in any area connected with driving tests?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: When does Mr. Waide anticipate the RSA will get to that point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: How many is that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is an increase of 40.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is an increase of 40 in the number of permanent posts, basically.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The RSA has 90 permanent staff. How many temporary staff has it on top of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Waide might come back to us on what he has put to the Department so we can follow up on that as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will turn to my colleagues briefly. I will then allow the contributors to make-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: They are never straightforward.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Currently.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is a reserved function.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is a good question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: This is Love 30's area. Has it looked at that? Individual local authorities are doing 30 km/h zones but could they decide to make all urban and built-up areas 30 km/h zones by default and put that to the councillors as a reserved decision? Can that be done? Has Love 30 looked at that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We might follow up on that with the Department and maybe the organisations before us. It is a good question. You do not necessarily always have to build a new plan if the old one can basically be remodelled.