Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 125: To ask the Minister for Transport if the tendering process for the contracting of private sector driving testers is completed; when the successful tenderer will commence work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28819/05]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The tendering process has been completed and a preferred tenderer has been selected. However, the use of outsourcing as part of a package of measures to clear the backlog of driving test applications is being disputed by the staff associations, who have asked that the matter be referred to conciliation under the terms of Sustaining Progress. A conciliation hearing at the Labour Relations Commission is scheduled for 21 October 2005.