Seanad debates

Tuesday, 15 April 2003

We need a debate on the fact that, at present, there are 360,000 drivers who have had provisional licences for more than three years and who are being ripped off by insurance companies. The Government is genuinely trying to tackle this problem by introducing outside testers. However, that will not resolve matters. It will take a long time to eat into that number and the backlog will continue. We should seriously consider the possibility of an amnesty for anybody on a provisional licence whose record is accident-free. We did it before and it worked. The backlog will never be reduced in the manner in which it is being tackled at present.

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