As a result of the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act 2018 introduced by the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, hundreds of young drivers can no longer drive alone on a provisional licence. A family member must be with them. Parents are strangled trying to bring their children to college or wherever or trying to bring them to and from work. Given that they cannot drive alone on a provisional licence, can the Taoiseach explain to me why the cost of insurance has not come down but has in fact gone up? I appeal to him and to the Minister to bring down the cost of insurance for these young people because they are not driving on their own any more. Fair play is fair play and they are not getting it.

On the same point, drivers are trapped, waiting to do their driver test. They have done the lessons and are very good drivers but many are waiting because there are so few testers. There are only 13 testers for the Cork-Kerry region where almost 11,000 people are caught in the queue. They are waiting for between 20 and 22 weeks. Additional testers need to be brought on stream so that people waiting for the lessons or the test can qualify faster.

The cost of insurance working group has put much work into this to ensure that motor insurance is reduced. The reduction is 23% since the peak in summer 2016. That is the average but some people have not experienced that.

In the main the insurance for young people has not come down because of the number of accidents they are involved in. Insurance has reduced overall but it is not coming down for younger people because of the number of accidents, the awards and the quantity of claims against them.

The Minister of State should be ashamed to say that. Insurance is going up.