Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 23 April 2026
321. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Transport if the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has reached its agreed complement of 200 permanent driver testers under its Service Level Agreement Plan in May 2025; 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. [29462/26]
View answerUnder the Road Safety Authority Act 2006, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has statutory responsibility for the National Driver Testing Service. Therefore, the information requested by the Deputy is held by the Authority. Given the RSA's responsibility in this matter, I have referred the Deputy's question to the RSA for direct response. Please contact my office if a reply is not received within ten days. The Deputy may also wish to note that detailed statistics on the National Driver Testing Service are made available on the CSO website on a monthly basis and can be accessed via the following link: data.cso.ie/product/rsadts.
Pending this response, I am informed by the RSA that as of 18 April, 193 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 later this year subject to the training and onboarding of new recruits, which is continuing.
