According to the most recent RSA figures, 83,486 individuals are stuck waiting for their driving test – an all-time record high, and a significant leap from 58,860 just one year ago. If you’re unlucky enough to be waiting in somewhere like Navan, you’re facing an eye-watering 43 weeks in the queue, essentially stuck in the motorist’s equivalent of Purgatory.
For perspective, if you and your partner conceived a baby just before applying for your driving test, the child would be born and over a month old by the time you actually got to take the exam. I’ve frankly seen snails with more gusto.
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