Seanad debates

Wednesday, 14 May 2003

While the Minister's idea to enforce the law in relation to provisional licences from 1 January was laudable, it was not backed up by adequate resources. The enormity of the problem faced by him is demonstrated by the fact that 124,000 have a first provisional licence, 149,000 have a second provisional licence, 54,000 have a third provisional licence and 28,000 have a fourth provisional licence. We need to put more resources into this area. It seems fine to announce changes but there is no point in doing so if extra driving testers are not put in place to clear the backlog in this area, or if a new system is not put in place.

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