Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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39. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason appointment dates keep changing for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45357/24]

James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has statutory responsibility for the National Driver Testing Service, this includes all application and scheduling matters and neither I nor my department have the power to intervene in individual cases.

Given the RSA's responsibility in this matter, I have referred the Deputy's question to the RSA for direct, detailed reply. Please contact my private office if a response is not received within ten days

Pending the response, the Deputy may wish to note that to further assist with reducing waiting times, in October last year a change was made to the booking system to allow any unused test slots to be made available for candidates to take up at short notice. If a driving test is cancelled at short notice, the RSA now make this appointment available on the MyRoadSafety portal on RSA.ie.