Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 79 of 12 May 2021, if he will clarify the schedule 8 referred to and the location the recently amended SI No. 489 of 2020 mentions qualification of testers. [32848/21]

Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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I would be happy to clarify this for the Deputy.

The regulations in this area are the Road Traffic (Licensing of Drivers) Regulations 2006 (S.I. No. 537 of 2006).

Regulation 2(i) of the Road Traffic (Licensing of Drivers) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 483 of 2011) amended S.I. No. 537 of 2006 by inserting a new regulation 23(2) requiring driver testers to meet the standards set out in Schedule 8 of S.I. No. 537, while regulation 2(o) of S.I. No. 483 of 2011 amended S.I. No. 537 of 2006 by the insertion of that Schedule 8, which lists the standards in question. Schedule 8 was subsequently amended when paragraph 2 of Part 2 of Schedule 8 was substituted by regulation 2(i) of the Road Traffic (Licensing of Drivers) (Amendment) (No. 8) Regulations of 2020 (S.I. No. 489 of 2020).

As all of these regulations are in the public domain and may be consulted on the Irish Statutebook website, referred to in my answer to Question 79 of 12 May 2021, I trust this clarifies matters.

Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 80 of 12 May 2021, if initial basic training has now been fully resumed. [32849/21]

Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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I can confirm that Initial Basic Training resumed on 10 May 2021.