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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Quarterly Update on Matters relating to Minister of State's Remit: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Will consideration be given to employing driving instructors on secondment for three or four months to help tackle the driver test backlog? Driving instructors know the driver test inside out and have an intimate knowledge of the roads of the county where they work. Employing driving instructors on secondment would be a very quick win for everyone. Since last autumn, Vueling Airlines has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...stated that there was continued cover and that was very clear but it is less clear now for motorists and for An Garda Síochána in respect of enforcement. Does MIBI have a view on L-plate drivers? It is a similar and related question. In some parts of the country, including west Clare in my constituency, there is a waiting period of 29 weeks from when a test is applied for. At...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Driver Test (2 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...youngsters whose parents bought them a car so they could commute to college and work. A lot of them cannot find accommodation and now they find themselves criminalised in a way because they cannot drive solo with learner plates as they need to be accompanied. We want testers on permanent contracts. I will make two suggestions and I ask the Minister of State to respond to them....

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

Cathal Crowe: Such is life. I welcome our witnesses. I have a number of friends who are driving instructors and they have been burning my ear on this issue for many months. Unite the Union is right to become organised and to talk to us this morning. One of its key asks is that it be at the table. As one of my colleagues just said, it is the most reasonable request of all that decision-making does...