Vol. 519 No. 7
30 Mr. Deasy asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government the location of all driver testing centres in the country; the centres which have fully appointed testers; and when he will appoint a full-time tester to Dungarvan, County Waterford. [14761/00]
The level of driving test applications to the Dungarvan test centre, while increasing, is still not such as to require the assignment of a full-time driver tester. The level of service at Dungarvan test centre is generally kept in line with the national average.
Locations of all centres and centres where testers are assigned are set out in the following table:
|
Driving test centres |
Number of testersassigned |
|
North Leinster Region |
|
|
Finglas/Raheny |
23 |
|
Dundalk |
– |
|
Mullingar |
– |
|
Navan |
1 |
|
South Leinster Region |
|
|
Churchtown/Rathgar/Tallaght |
22 |
|
Gorey |
– |
|
Naas |
2 |
|
Tullamore |
– |
|
Wicklow |
1 |
|
West Region |
|
|
Athlone |
1 |
|
Birr |
– |
|
Castlebar |
1.5 |
|
Clifden |
– |
|
Ennis |
2 |
|
Galway |
4 |
|
Loughrea |
1 |
|
Roscommon |
– |
|
Tuam |
– |
|
North-West Region |
|
|
Ballina |
1 |
|
Buncrana |
– |
|
Carrick-on-Shannon |
2 |
|
Cavan |
2 |
|
Donegal |
– |
|
Letterkenny |
2 |
|
Longford |
– |
|
Monaghan |
1 |
|
Sligo |
2 |
|
South-East Region |
|
|
Carlow |
1 |
|
Clonmel |
1 |
|
Dungarvan |
– |
|
Kilkenny |
3 |
|
Nenagh |
– |
|
Portlaoise |
1 |
|
Thurles |
– |
|
Tipperary |
– |
|
Waterford |
4 |
|
Wexford |
2 |
|
South-West Region |
|
|
Cork |
9.5 |
|
Killarney |
1 |
|
Kilrush |
– |
|
Limerick |
5 |
|
Mallow |
– |
|
Newcastle West |
– |
|
Shannon |
– |
|
Skibbereen |
– |
|
Tralee |
2 |
|
Total |
98(99 testers in total are employed as two are job sharing) |
