Clare Daly
Question:672. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans the Road Safety Authority has to ensure that professional drivers complete a module of their driver CPC periodic training each year once they complete their initial driver CPC training cycle as they will be issued with a driver CPC card dated with an expiry date five years ahead, that is, 9 September 2019 for truck drivers; the way the Road Safety Authority envisages this requirement will be enforced as there is no evidence available to the gardaí at a roadside checkpoint of annual compliance once the driver is in possession of their driver CPC card; his views on the genuine tempatation for some drivers not to complete their annual periodic training module and play catch-up as the second driver CPC periodic deadline, September 2019, for truck drivers approaches [26778/14]
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