Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 5 March 2026
293. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport if the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has reached its agreed complement of 200 permanent driver testers; the current number of testers in each driving test centre; the average waiting time in each driving test centre for a driver to receive an invitation from the RSA to apply to sit a driving test. [18132/26]
View answerUnder the Road Safety Authority Act 2006, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has statutory responsibility for the National Driver Testing Service. As such, the information requested is held by the RSA.
Given the RSA's responsibility in this matter, I have referred the Deputy's questions to the RSA for direct response. Please contact my office if a reply is not received within ten days.
Pending this more detailed response, the latest information provided to me by the RSA indicates that as of 21 February, 194 testers were in place, which marks a significant increase on the 151 available at the beginning of 2025. The RSA is working to reach its full complement of 200 testers in the coming months subject to the next successful round of training and onboarding of new recruits.
The Deputy may wish to note that the RSA publish detailed monthly information on the driver testing service on the CSO website. This information is available at the following link: https://data.cso.ie/table/ROA38.
