Driver Test
Dail Éireann — 2020-11-12
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Darren O'Rourke (SF), Meath East

I want to come back to driving instructors. I have been contacted by driving instructors over the past number of weeks who have been refused entry to driving testing centres. Yesterday, I was sent a video to my phone from the west of Ireland, showing female and male driving instructors in rain that was falling horizontally and they were outside with a collapsable chair and an umbrella. That is what they were left with. They had no access to toilet facilities, warmth or sanitisation facilities. It is absolutely disgraceful. I raised this issue with the Minister of State at a committee meeting on 21 October 2020 and nothing has improved since. UNITE is on the case, and fair play to the union. There is a simple resolution. A dog would not be treated like this. The Government can intervene and the Minister of State or a senior Minister can intervene to resolve this issue at the flick of a switch. I am asking for that to be done, and for a commitment to be given to the instructors. I will send the Minister of State the video so that she can see it at first hand. Nobody would stand over it.

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Sitting date: 2020-11-12