Written answers
Thursday, 6 April 2006
Department of Transport
Driving Tests
5:00 am
Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 266: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of driver testers and their grades in each test centre. [14104/06]
Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The following table sets out the supervisory driver testers assigned to each region and the test centres in each region where driver testers are headquartered. Driver testers are assigned from headquarter centres to meet the demand in other centres. In addition, there is a chief tester and one supervisory driver tester who works full time as a training and standards co-ordinator.
Driving Test Centres | Number of testers assigned to test centres at 3/4/06 |
North Leinster Region | No. of Supervisors = 2 |
Finglas | 16.5 |
Raheny | 8 |
Dundalk | — |
Mullingar | — |
Navan | 1 |
South Leinster Region | No. of Supervisors = 2 |
Churchtown/Rathgar | 16 |
Tallaght | 10 |
Gorey | — |
Naas | 2 |
Tullamore | — |
Wicklow | — |
West Region | No. of Supervisors = 1 |
Athlone | 2 |
Birr | — |
Castlebar | 2.5 |
Clifden | — |
Ennis | 3 |
Galway | 6 |
Loughrea | 2 |
Roscommon | 1 |
Tuam | 1 |
North West Region | No. of Supervisors = 1 |
Ballina | — |
Buncrana | — |
Carrick-on-Shannon | 2 |
Cavan | 4 |
Donegal | — |
Letterkenny | 3 |
Longford | — |
Monaghan | 2 |
Sligo | 2 |
South East Region | No. of Supervisors = 1 |
Carlow | 1 |
Clonmel | 2 |
Dungarvan | — |
Kilkenny | 2 |
Nenagh | — |
Portlaoise | 1 |
Thurles | — |
Tipperary | — |
Waterford | 4 |
Wexford | 4 |
South West Region | No. of Supervisors = 2 |
Cork | 12.5 |
Killarney | 2 |
Kilrush | — |
Limerick | 4 |
Mallow | — |
Newcastle West | — |
Shannon | — |
Skibbereen | 1 |
Tralee | 2 |
Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 267: To ask the Minister for Transport the basis for his conclusion that the existing number of driver testers plus ten new recruits is sufficient to meet the underlying demand for driving tests, in view of the fact that 130,000 people are on the waiting list and a further 270,000 people hold provisional licences. [14105/06]
Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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In the past, the core of driver testers were in a position to meet the underlying demand for tests within a ten week waiting time. The present backlog of more than 130,000 tests is due to a period of exceptional demand in 2003. However, the underlying level of demand has returned to its pre-2003 level. While the number of testers can deal with the number of applications coming in they cannot deal with the backlog. That is why I brought forward proposals to address the backlog.
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