James Bannon (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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918. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider a driving test exemption for farmers who hold a full car or jeep and trailer licence for more than ten years. [55529/13]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Last year, I received representations from farming organisations suggesting that many farmers who had a car licence before the 1989 Regulations came into effect, had unintentionally lost their trailer entitlement by not ticking the appropriate box on the form when applying for renewal.  I am assuming that this is the situation to which the question refers.  If so, the issue has been resolved.  I agreed to make an exceptional allowance for people in this position - whether farmers or not - to reclaim the trailer entitlement, where they could prove that they had previously held it and the RSA made arrangements to accommodate drivers in this position for a limited period.