Is the Minister aware of the public reaction to a situation where, of the 45,000 people who have benefited from the irresponsible decision he took, at least 15,000 of them had failed the driving test and that they are currently driving about to the horror and shock of the testers themselves and of a large number of citizens who must face them on the roads? There could be no justification for that decision.

They are not inexperienced drivers.

Is the Minister not aware that 15,000 of them actually failed the driving test and the Minister gave them licences?

At the first test 50 per cent of applicants fail; at the second test 80 per cent of applicants pass. That is the way it has been.

One lunatic is too many.

Did the Deputy have a test?

Yes, and I got it first time.

Is the Minister not aware that in the last 12 months, according to a reply he gave yesterday, 33,000 failed the driving test and that some 45,000 benefited overall from the change in the regulations which he made? It is a fair assumption that there are now at least 15,000 to 20,000 persons driving who failed the driving test at least once and quite a number of them failed the second time and yet the Minister gave them a licence.

I have said that at the second test 80 per cent pass.

There are people who never drove a car in their lives before——

They must have applied for a test in order to have a current licence.