Louise Byrne
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Aug
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immediately their cancellation appointment was subsequently cancelled and they were lost their money and then didn't get their test.
So it does doesn't seem like the best way to get a test, but it just goes to show how much pressure people are under, especially if we're coming into the new college term.
Young people are if who are moving away down the country perhaps to go to college trying to get their learner
l their learner plates off their cars before they go there.
It is working in some areas and certainly those tests waiting times are not as long as they were.
But like you said, the national average is twelve weeks.
That is the agreement.
But I suppose the issue is how that differs in a lot of centres.
We've spoken about Raheini, that is probably one of the worst, but that is you know, it's in other centres across the country as well where people are waiting for and it's not it's important to point out that's not an invitation to
Do your test.
It's an invitation to book your test.
So you could be waiting twelve weeks to book your test.
You could then be waiting even longer to actually get that date.
And this is an issue.
And we have seen recent statistics in the CSO showing that the number of cars on the road is increasing.
So it just goes to show the demand that there is for people to do their tests.
And I guess it comes back to query
that politicians are repeatedly raising about whether the RSA is properly resourced to get through this backlog.
Well, I think this is the real issue, Claire, is that we don't.
And as you heard John Connolly say just there, the RSA weren't able to give him those figures.
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