SEVEN-MONTH WAIT FOR DRIVING TESTS IN CO MONAGHAN

PETER HUGHES

The average waiting time for a driving test in Co Monaghan was now approximately seven months, Fianna Fáil local public representative Seamus Coyle told Monday’s meeting of the Ballybay-Clones Municipal District. Councillor Coyle was moving a notice of motion which called on Minister for Transport Darragh O’Brien TD, Minister of State for Transport Sean Canney TD and the Government to introduce immediate measures to expedite the delivery of tests. He called for the immediate appointment of additional testers and an increase in the number of test centres, “as the current waiting times are totally unacceptable to people for whom driving and a vehicle are essential, not….