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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Jun 2022)

Seán Canney: ...Social Protection the supports that are available to support a young person who is on JobPath with an organisation (details supplied) and is trying to access funding to undertake a bus and coach driving instructor course; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30622/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (24 May 2022)

Hildegarde Naughton: Irish driver licensing law operates within a framework of EU law, with which all member states must comply. The format of driving licences, categories of vehicles and the standards to be met in driving tests to qualify for a licence are all set at EU level. Therefore, all EU-issued licences are mutually recognised in member states. A holder of a member state issued licence who moves to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme: Former Members of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal (11 May 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

...vehicle. That is what I was talking about earlier in terms of a graded scheme. Some people need a very much adapted vehicle into which they can bring a wheelchair and fix it in. There will never drive themselves so it is a matter of being transported. People like that often work. It might be surprising to people but I have patients who work despite quite significant disabilities....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (5 Apr 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Alan Dillon: 226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional resources that will be provided to approved driving instructors to respond to the influx of Ukrainians applying for essential driver training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18369/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (22 Mar 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Darren O'Rourke: 221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to expand the electric small public service vehicles grant to driving instructors and schools in order to give learner drivers early experience of electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15004/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Vehicle Testing (10 Mar 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are recognised delays with the check test for advanced driving Instructors; the way he plans to respond to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13691/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (22 Feb 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Róisín Shortall: 178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter in relation to approved driving instructors (details supplied); if he plans to address the cost of such tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9089/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Staff (15 Feb 2022)

Hildegarde Naughton: While I cannot comment on the precise circumstances of individual cases, under the Road Traffic (Driving Instructor Licensing) (No. 2) Regulations 2009 (S.I. No. 203 of 2009), a driving instructor licence issued prior to the regulations was treated as if it was a licence under the regulations. Therefore, under such circumstances, a recognised pre-2009 licence being treated as a licence...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 Feb 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 603. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda car driving and motorcycle instructor courses that were held in either the Garda training college or Garda headquarters in 2021 and to-date in 2022, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8235/22]

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Driver Licences (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: ...the Senator has made a very compelling case for doing so. I will provide some background on this matter. Prior to October 2016, as the Senator said, full category B licence holders, on passing a driving test, were permitted to drive category M moped vehicles. This practice ceased for new category B licence holders with the implementation of the third EU driving licence directive. As it...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (1 Feb 2022)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...at Work Act, 2005 relates to duties of employers to those who are not their employees but who work in workplaces under the control of those employers. In the circumstances cited, this is not the case. Driving instructors are neither employed by my department nor the RSA. Nor does their work require them to be in test centres.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (19 Jan 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Mattie McGrath: 192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when driving instructors will be permitted to access the RSA national test centres as they continue to be locked out in the cold for almost two years; the reason with the reopening of most sections of society the RSA testing centres are not fully reopened to driving instructors (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (19 Jan 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Willie O'Dea: 209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the current situation in which approved driving instructors at RSA test centres have been prevented from entering these centres and have had no access to toilet or sanitary facilities for almost two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63298/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Authority (15 Dec 2021) See 1 other result from this answer

Eoin Ó Broin: 43. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that driving instructors have been unable to access bathroom or sanitation facilities at RSA test centres since 2020 due to the pandemic; if his attention has been drawn to the way this impacts them in their work; and if he will work with test centres to ensure there are facilities for...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Authority (15 Dec 2021) See 1 other result from this answer

Catherine Murphy: 46. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the lack of sanitary and-or bathroom facilities for driving instructors (details supplied) at RSA facilities; and if he will take immediate action to remedy the situation. [62174/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Authority (14 Dec 2021) See 2 other results from this answer

Réada Cronin: 182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take to resolve the situation in relation to driving instructors who are being denied access to basic facilities such as toilets and sanitation for a second year (details supplied) given that they are providing a vital service dealing with the current backlog of persons waiting for driving tests; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (2 Dec 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 12. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider giving updated guidelines to driving test centres operated by the Road Safety Authority in order that instructors can use bathroom facilities at the centres once they are able to prove their vaccination status and adhere to Covid-19 guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59545/21]

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary)
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (25 Nov 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Joe Carey: I raised the issue of 34 RSA driver instructors. I did not see any reference in the Estimate here, but I was led to believe a submission was made by the Minister of State's Department, from the RSA, to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, DEPR, seeking sanction to take these people on, on a permanent basis. They would have been employed through a strenuous requirement process in...

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...area plan. This is not a new procedure. The board already has the power to grant certain permissions that contravene a development plan in specific circumstances. The proposed new rules on fit and proper persons to be a driving instructor were raised by Deputies McNamara and Carey. The principles of excluding persons with certain types of convictions from certain professions, either...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (18 Nov 2021)

Patricia Ryan: 152. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that driving instructors whose car is being used by a pupil to undertake their driving test are afforded shelter and access to a toilet at RSA driving test centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56640/21]