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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (13 May 2025)

Seán Canney: Under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has statutory responsibility for the National Driver Testing Service, including the recruitment and training of driver testers. While my Department is responsible for the overall staffing sanction, it is not involved in the delivery of driver testing at an operational level and, as such, the requested information is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (13 May 2025)

Seán Canney: The Department is committed, under the Government's Road Safety Strategy, to addressing the matter of learner drivers with multiple successive learner permits. It is intended to restrict eligibility to third or fourth permits, by requiring the learner to take a practical test before they can renew their permit, and that a learner can have no more than four successive permits before they must...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Vehicle and Driver File (13 May 2025)

Seán Canney: The General Scheme of the National Vehicle and Driver File Bill 2025 has been approved by Government for drafting and has been sent to the Office of Parliamentary Counsel for drafting. Among its main provisions, the Bill:Improves the existing legislative basis underpinning the Department of Transport's National Vehicle and Driver File (NVDF) database. which predates GDPR, and the data held...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Insurance Industry (13 May 2025)

Seán Canney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 438, 439 and 444 together. The relevant sections of the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023 allowing access by insurers and intermediaries to disqualification and endorsement data from my Department's National Vehicle and Driver File (NVDF) database at policy processing or renewal time have been commenced. I am pleased to advise the Deputy that these...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (13 May 2025)

Seán Canney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 440 and 445 together. Driving disqualification court order information is sent electronically from the Courts Service to my Department. This information is then endorsed on driver records on the Department's National Vehicle and Driver File (NVDF). My Department received 2,877 individual court disqualification orders via weekly files between 01 January and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Vehicle and Driver File (13 May 2025)

Seán Canney: The Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023 was signed into law by the President on 23 June 2023. It is a wide-ranging Act and is being commenced in stages. A commencement order for section 14(c) of the 2023 Act came into effect on 1 October 2024 under S.I. 497/2024 and amends section 5(1) of the Road Traffic Act 2014. Section 5 of the 2014 Act provides for vehicle insurers to be able to view...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (13 May 2025)

Seán Canney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 442 and 443 together. Section 56A(1) of the Road Traffic Act obliges insurers and brokers to collect a driver number when issuing or renewing a policy of motor insurance. This came into effect on 31 March 2025. It is therefore an offence for any insurance provider or broker to issue a motor insurance policy from 31 March, where the driver number has not...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (13 May 2025)

Seán Canney: Under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has statutory responsibility for the National Driver Testing Service and the information requested for Donegal is held by the Authority. I have therefore referred the Deputy's question to the RSA for direct reply. I would ask the Deputy to contact my office if a response has not been received within ten days. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 May 2025)

Seán Canney: 594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an application for additional special needs assistants at a school (details supplied) as the school authorities need to make arrangements to put new SNAs in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23981/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (8 May 2025)

Seán Canney: As the Deputy may be aware, there have been significant improvements to the rail service for Drogheda recently, and I am pleased to say that more is to come. Last year, the intercity Enterprise train service, which serves Drogheda between Dublin and Belfast, was increased from roughly every two hours in each direction to hourly, providing for a frequent and fast connection to the cities....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (8 May 2025)

Seán Canney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 17, 247, 256 and 259 together. Under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has statutory responsibility for the National Driver Testing Service. I acknowledge that current waiting times for driving tests are far in excess of what is acceptable and I would like to assure the Deputies that measures have been taken to address...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (8 May 2025)

Seán Canney: Under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has statutory responsibility for the operation of the National Driver Testing Service and the specific information on waiting times for January 2024 through April 2025 are held by them. I have therefore referred part of the Deputy's question to the RSA for direct reply. I would ask the Deputy to contact my office if a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (8 May 2025)

Seán Canney: Under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has statutory responsibility for the National Driver Testing Service. This includes the location and provision of test centres.I have therefore referred the Deputy's question to the RSA for direct reply. I would ask the Deputy to contact my office if a response has not been received within ten days.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (8 May 2025)

Seán Canney: As the Deputy may be aware, the All-Island Strategic Rail Review was undertaken by the Department of Transport in co-operation with the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland. The Review will inform the development of rail on the Island of Ireland in the coming decades to 2050. The Review’s Final Report was published in July 2024. The Review sets out 32 strategic...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (8 May 2025)

Seán Canney: Under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has statutory responsibility for the operation of the National Driver Testing Service. I acknowledge that current waiting times for driving tests are far in excess of what is acceptable and I would like to assure the Deputy that measures have been taken to address the issue. I met with the RSA last week to discuss...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (8 May 2025)

Seán Canney: Under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has statutory responsibility for the National Driver Testing Service. This includes all operational, application and scheduling matters. I have therefore referred the Deputy's question to the RSA for direct reply in relation to the Raheny and Killester test centres and I would ask the Deputy to contact my office if a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (8 May 2025)

Seán Canney: Under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has statutory responsibility for the operation of the National Driver Testing Service. I acknowledge that the current waiting times for driving tests, including in the Dublin area, are far in excess of what is acceptable and I would like to assure the Deputy that measures have been taken to address the issue....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (8 May 2025)

Seán Canney: As the Deputy is aware, the All-Island Strategic Rail Review was undertaken by the Department of Transport in co-operation with the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland. The Review’s Final Report was published on 31st July 2024. The Review sets out 32 strategic recommendations to enhance and expand the rail system in Ireland and Northern Ireland up to 2050. The...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (8 May 2025)

Seán Canney: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for overall policy and exchequer funding in relation to the National Roads Programme. Under the Roads Acts 1993-2015 and in line with the National Development Plan (NDP), the operation and management of individual national roads is a matter for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), in conjunction with the local authorities concerned. This is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (8 May 2025)

Seán Canney: Regulations were introduced by my Department in 2024 to allow for the legal use of e-scooters on Irish roads. These regulations extend the rules of the road already in place for pedal cycles to include e-scooters, provide for technical standards and conditions for safe use and set a minimum age of 16 and a speed limit of 20 km/h. The regulations allow An Garda Síochána to issue a...