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- Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)
Lorraine Clifford-Lee: The RSA's submission stated a new NCT centre is planned for north Dublin. What is the location of that?
- Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)
Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Are these locations in north County Dublin or north city?
- Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)
Lorraine Clifford-Lee: When will there be clarification on the location?
- Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)
Lorraine Clifford-Lee: What is the timeline for that?
- Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)
Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Is Mr. Walsh saying there is a requirement to provide the test centre that the contractor has not been fulfilled?
- Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)
Lorraine Clifford-Lee: How long has that non-fulfilment been the case?
- Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)
Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I understand the commercial realities but the Northpoint Business Park, which is the closest to north County Dublin, is a significant distance away for those in Balbriggan, Skerries, Rush or Lusk and it is not at all adequate. Mr. Walsh is saying the service agreement was supposed to provide for a centre in north County Dublin this year but it could be next year before it is provided.
- Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)
Lorraine Clifford-Lee: What are the financial penalties?
- Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)
Lorraine Clifford-Lee: What are service credits?
- Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)
Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Are these credits significant enough to put pressure on this crowd to deliver?
- Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)
Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Those sites are significantly far from places like Balbriggan. Getting to Northpoint is a significant distance.
- Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)
Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I would like to move onto the testing centres. Mr. Walsh said what moves driving test numbers is the testers and not the location. The RSA announced there would be three new locations in Drogheda, Naas and Sandyford.
- Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)
Lorraine Clifford-Lee: There is no driving test centre in north County Dublin. The nearest centres are in the Finglas and Charlestown. I have spoken to a number of driving test instructors in north County Dublin who have shown me there are significant difficulties with this. A learner driver cannot use the motorway. If people doing their test in Finglas and need to practice on that route, they will have to get...
- Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)
Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Absolutely.
- Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)
Lorraine Clifford-Lee: However, the actual practicalities for a learner driver getting there------
- Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)
Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Could Mr. Walsh give me a timeline on that?
- Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)
Lorraine Clifford-Lee: We are talking about the youngest and most rapidly expanding population in the country and an area with inadequate public transport. It is a collection of rural towns and villages. Like colleagues from around the country, we face the same difficulties in getting around with our young people going to college and work. It is the young people of north County Dublin who are fuelling the...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)
Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I call on the Leader to invite the Minister for Transport, Darragh O'Brien, to the House for a debate on the roll-out of BusConnects. I was at a meeting last night in Lusk attended by representatives from Skerries, Loughshinny, Lusk and Rush, who are very concerned about the removal of the only direct service to the city, the No. 33 bus, which is due to be implemented next year. The...