John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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Question 309: To ask the Minister for Transport the locations for the off-road driver training and testing centres for HGVs; if Kilkenny is being considered as a location; the list of sites already agreed and those being considered; his policy in this area and the related costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12779/05]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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My Department is in consultation with the Office of Public Works with a view to providing off-road testing facilities for the testing of drivers of heavy goods vehicles. Such facilities have been provided in Sligo, Limerick and Dundalk. It is the intention, subject to the availability of suitable sites and the efficient and economic delivery of the service, to provide similar facilities at the test centres that currently test drivers of articulated heavy goods vehicles. The following table sets out details of the centres where driving tests for articulated heavy goods vehicles are normally undertaken. These centres are not driver training centres. The cost of securing the sites will vary depending on location and other commercial considerations.

Test centres where drivers of articulated heavy goods vehicles are tested:

Athlone

Castlebar

Cork

Dundalk

Finglas

Galway

Kilkenny

Killarney

Letterkenny

Limerick

Mullingar

Rathgar/Churchtown

Sligo

Tralee

Tullamore

Waterford