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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)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...RSA operates it. However, we could be at cross purposes here. It is something that we will take up with the RSA, but if the issue here is that the RSA has inadequate funding to retain these 34 driving instructors, the committee is duty bound to ask. If it is a funding issue, I assume discussions are ongoing between the RSA and the Department on this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Covid-19 on Driving Instructors: Unite the Union (18 Mar 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: No apologies have been received. The impact of Covid-19 on driving instructors is a follow-on theme from our last meeting with the Road Safety Authority. The purpose of the first part of our meeting today is to discuss the impact Covid-19 is having on driving instructors. On behalf of the committee, I welcome to today's meeting from the approved driving instructors, ADI, branch of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Covid-19 on Driving Instructors: Unite the Union (18 Mar 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I would like to raise a couple of issues. Am I correct that all of our witnesses are approved driving instructors, ADIs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Covid-19 on Driving Instructors: Unite the Union (18 Mar 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: That point is an important one. Driving instructors are at the front line in this situation. I ask the witnesses to make a formal submission on all the points raised today so that we can feed it into our report to the Department on this issue. The focus of these hearings is the approximately 100,000 people awaiting a driver test and 50,000 awaiting a theory test. I have met many young...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Covid-19 on Driving Instructors: Unite the Union (18 Mar 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Does Mr. Jordan have any idea of the number of learner drivers who were midway through their EDT at the time the restriction preventing driving instructors undertaking approved driver instruction was imposed? Does he have any idea of the number of young or older learner drivers who were midway through their 12 EDT lessons?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Covid-19 on Driving Instructors: Unite the Union (18 Mar 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: There are some 1,300 approved driving instructors, ADIs, in Ireland and, given the average, that means there are some 80,000 people in the middle of their hours. Is that reasonable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Covid-19 on Driving Instructors: Unite the Union (18 Mar 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Would Mr. Brophy have it as one of the recommendations to make a new cohort on the essential side so people could do their driving hours with the approved driving instructors? What is the technical term for those hours?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Covid-19 on Driving Instructors: Unite the Union (18 Mar 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank all the witnesses for attending today's engagement with the committee. We will be following up with the approved driving instructors stakeholders' forum and Mr. Fred Reilly and will ask them to come before the committee, which they have indicated they would be interested in doing, or to give us a detailed submission. This would be in terms of our deliberations on putting forward a...