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Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: CLEAR Report on Lady's Island Lake: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Pa Daly: Was it the Carra catchment or Carraig?

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Pa Daly: I thank the witnesses for coming in and for their presentations. The method Members of the Oireachtas has for directly contacting the RSA for urgent appointments has worked quite efficiently for us over the year and I thank them for that service. We received a reply to a parliamentary question about driver test waiting numbers between 2021 and 2025. While there was 57,000 in 2021,...

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Pa Daly: Was it only then that the RSA or the Government decided there was a problem? Clearly going back four or five years, definitely four years, there was a problem with the increased numbers and waiting lists. Was the Government slow off the mark in giving the RSA the sanction for extra?

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Pa Daly: Therefore, the RSA was looking for it well in advance of when the Government took action and gave it the sanction.

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Pa Daly: The RSA statement mentioned the expiry of fixed-term contracts and that people were now being employed on a permanent basis.

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Pa Daly: It obviously feels that employment on a permanent basis is a much better way to do business to ensure retention of staff. Is it correct to say that?

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Pa Daly: Was it frustrating for the RSA that only temporary contracts were being sanctioned by the Government?

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Pa Daly: Would it have been better for the RSA if it had the-----

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Pa Daly: Temporary contracts were only a stop-gap and not likely to address the increase in numbers.

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Pa Daly: On a short term basis, is it?

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Pa Daly: I will stop Mr. Walsh there. Would the RSA accept that the sanction it had received was never going to solve the problem?

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Pa Daly: People were not satisfied because they were temporary roles and they would have preferred a permanent role.

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Pa Daly: Would you say it is likely?

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Pa Daly: I have several more questions. There will be 91 new testers in July, which is exactly half of what they will bring the total number to, which is 182. As a result of all of this, has the RSA been running at 50% capacity of what it thinks is necessary?

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Pa Daly: What percentage of them are on full-time contracts, or will be on full-time contracts in September, as opposed to temporary contracts?

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Pa Daly: Where are the new locations and when will they be open?

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Pa Daly: When is it likely to open?

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Pa Daly: When will they open?

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Pa Daly: What about the other two?