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

Violet-Anne Wynne: ...student accommodation due to the cost and the fact that I will be farming at home myself. I did try to get all this done sooner but I only turned 17 in October last, then it took a long time for driving instructors to have availability, then there was an issue with the RSA system that my lessons took weeks and weeks to upload and now I have the issue of waiting on a driving test. In the...

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...

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

Pauline Tully: I thank the Rural Independent Group for tabling this important motion. It is a huge issue in Cavan, as it is elsewhere. I am contacted weekly by people who inquire about driving tests and wonder whether their applications could be fast-tracked. Many of them are young and about to take up an apprenticeship or new job or college place and require a driving licence to get to their places...

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

Jack Chambers: I thank all of the Deputies for the opportunity to update the House on the national driver testing service. As they have said, it is an issue for many people in urban and rural Ireland, in particular young people who have not been able to get a test. I acknowledge that and do not dispute the concerns they have set out. There is wide agreement that it is essential that the public has access...