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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...Chairman for accommodating me, as a non-member of the committee. I welcome the witnesses from the RSA. A year or 18 months ago, I asked during Leaders' Questions about the situation whereby 100 driving test instructors were being let go. Has the current difficulty, with large numbers of young people looking to get their licence, stemmed from that? Why were those instructors let go at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

...were deployed in the service. Six months later, we received an additional sanction to take on an extra 40 staff to get us up to 80 but, unfortunately, we were not in a position to bring those 40 instructors on board. Instead, we worked with the Department to bring in 30 permanent testers instead of the additional 40 temporary staff. We did reduce the number of temporary testers in 2022...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

James O'Connor: My next question is for the RSA. An issue in Munster was brought to my attention. I will not give any more geographical detail because it would help to identify the case, but it relates to a driving tester who was serially rejecting students from a certain motoring school. Someone has come to me on a number of occasions with great of anger and frustration regarding the RSA's intervention...