{"id":5338,"date":"2025-01-13T09:59:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T09:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=5338"},"modified":"2025-01-13T09:59:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T09:59:28","slug":"new-driving-test-centre-must-be-a-priority-for-new-transport-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/new-driving-test-centre-must-be-a-priority-for-new-transport-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"New driving test centre must be a priority for new Transport Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that the opening of a new driving test centre in south Dublin must be a priority for the new Transport Minister when they are named. <br \/><br \/>Teachta Crowe\u2019s comments came as RSA figures revealed that over 17,000 people were on the waiting list in Tallaght testing centre at the start of November. This represented 10% of the total backlog out 60 testing centres, demonstrating that Tallaght is far and away the most oversubscribed centre in the state. <br \/><br \/>Teachta Crowe said:<br \/><br \/>\u201cFor several years now, I have been highlighting the need for a new driving test centre in south Dublin to cope with the massive backlog in driving test applications. People are waiting six months for a test in Tallaght if they\u2019re lucky and it is simply not good enough. <br \/><br \/>\u201cRSA figures reveal that over 17,000 people were on the waiting list in Tallaght testing centre at the start of November. This represented 10% of the total backlog out 60 testing centres, demonstrating that Tallaght is far and away the most oversubscribed centre in the state.<br \/><br \/>\u201cTallaght and D\u00fan Laoghaire are first and third when it comes to the sheer number of people waiting on a test. Additional testers in centres has only stemmed the problem, but it is not a solution. We must have a new testing centre to alleviate the pressure on Tallaght and allow people to complete their driving test. <br \/><br \/>\u201cWhile we should always look to public transport as or first option, that is not always a practical solution for people who are working or taking care of children. We are forcing some to put their lives on hold for want of a simple driving test. Whoever is named the new Transport Minister and whatever form the Department takes, a new driving test centre in south Dublin must be a priority.\u201d ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that the opening of a new driving test centre in south Dublin must be a priority for the new Transport Minister when they are named. Teachta Crowe\u2019s comments came as RSA figures revealed that over 17,000 people were on the waiting list in Tallaght [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5339,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338\/revisions\/5339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}