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Driving Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...have been held and there is one more to go this Sunday. People have been trying to pick up the pieces. It is tough. On road safety, I want to welcome our young people here today. It is wonderful that they want to go driving. When we were young, my neighbours would not let me near a vehicle. We did not have the vehicles, first of all. We might be able to drive a tractor or...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (19 Jan 2022)

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...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: There is a significant issue with regard to theory tests, driving lessons and driving tests being unavailable. This is causing large backlogs in many sectors of industry. This is very important for young people who wish to train as paramedics and nurses and who want to drive to college. They want to get their lessons, get on the road and play their part in the recovery of our economy....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: A number of driving instructors have begun a campaign to allow essential driving tests, EDTs, to continue during the extended level 5 restrictions. We know how long that will go on for. They are also trying to set up their own union. Currently only essential workers who have been allocated driving tests are allowed to do the pre-test lessons. Surely if it is safe for one cohort of...

Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (27 Jan 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...chair of the RSA board on the television complaining about the testing. The test centre in Clonmel in Tipperary is the Wild West. Young people are being penalised unfairly. Yesterday morning. four tests were cancelled because of the frost, despite the fact driving instructors were able to drive, the testers drove to work and the people drove with their parents, who took a day off work...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...Members, staff and everybody else over the years. I have known him for the last 14 years. I wish him a happy and successful retirement. I have a constituent who, like many others, took his driving test last January and unfortunately failed it. He was due to retake it in February but could not due to the pandemic. Now he cannot get a test and many other people cannot get licences....

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: .... This is one of them. That is why we are still here ag cáint faoin mBille seo. It is not my decision or the Acting Chairman's. In Tipperary there are 1,700 people waiting to be scheduled for driving tests. That is only one county. Multiply that figure by 26. They are the people who are waiting to be scheduled. They are not the people who have been scheduled and are in the...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I delighted to be able to speak on amendment No. 22, which relates to drivers with an L plate. I am disappointed, however. The Minister had an opportunity last night - he was allowed ten minutes - to respond to some of our questions but he chose not to do so. Deputy Broughan intervened as well. We have asked many questions during the course of the debate, including on Committee Stage,...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: .... We are the people who live in and represent rural Ireland. I refer also to the proposal to amend the Road Traffic Act 1994 to provide for the detention by An Garda Síochána of a vehicle being driven by an unaccompanied learner driver. I have been contacted by many people over last week and the weekend. I referred in the main previously to na daoine óga, the young...

Topical Issue Debate: Motor Insurance Regulation (27 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...x20ac;10.8 billion. Aviva Ireland reported an increase of 32% in its operating profit to €92 million last year. What do they want - the blood of the people? Young people do the theory test, pay an instructor to get the right standard of driving, pass their test and then they are made criminals before they go on the road because they are penalised to the tune of €4,000 to...

Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

Mattie McGrath: ...am delighted to comment on the Bill. I made many points previously in the Dáil on road traffic legislation, some of which were elaborated on when reported in the media. I do not condone drink driving and never did. Contrary to the message that went out during the debate on a previous Bill I still have concerns on the matter. I welcome the Minister's appointment, his introduction of the...