RSA ‘on track’ to cut driving test wait to 10 weeks by early next year

DRIVING test waiting times have been cut by a third in the last 12 months but there are still more than 128,000 people around the country who are waiting up to 38 weeks to do their test.

The average waiting time is now 23 weeks while this time last year it was 33 weeks. However, 23 weeks is only an average and the actual length of time people in various parts of the country are waiting varies greatly.

In Letterkenny the wait is as little as eight weeks, in Longford it is 13 weeks. But, in 10 parts of the country, including Cork, Killarney, Mallow and Thurles it is more than 30 weeks.