Limerick Driving Schools

Here in Limerick as elsewhere I am sure, there is a mix of every type, age and category of Driving Instructor. There are those who have been in business for many a year, some in recent years, myself included, and some in the last few months. Who knows maybe some just last week?

There are those who are full time professionals (or attempting to be) and others who are part- time Instructors trying to supplement an income. There are also retirees, who may never have been involved in The Tuition Industry before and who see it as a useful addition to income.

There has been much talk, waffle, huffing and puffing, by successive Ministers and yet we still have no end in sight to the situation regarding Regulation and Monitoring of Driving Schools and Instructors.

Maybe the new Agency, the D.T.S.A, will come into being soon? Who knows ? Until it does anyone can set up as a so-called Qualified Instructor and take fees for Tuition, although this is too kind a word to describe what masquerades as Lessons in many instances.

The D.I.R has been doing a sterling job over the years in running the Examination and Monitoring Process of Instructors, but it is a voluntary organisation and as such, has no control over persons who like to think of themselves as Instructors but who have no training. It was not so long ago that one of my local colleagues highlighted the case of the young man who passed his Driving Test on a Monday and set up as an Instructor one week later. Do we need to go any further with this thread? I think not!

The standards of Driving School Legislation vary quite a lot throughout Europe, from excellent to non - existent and here in Ireland I guess you would have to say that we must be at the bottom of the League Table since we don’t appear to have any at all!

Our record at the top of The European Accident Statistics Premier League is testament to what I have just written and we will only improve our Road fatality and accident horrors when the Industry responsible for training young and new Drivers is itself properly Trained and Regulated.

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