There will be no early re-opening of driving test centres, according to Minister for Transport Shane Ross. He told RTÉ's This Week programme that to carry out driving tests would be "a straight breach of social distancing guidelines".
He added: "It is very difficult to see a situation where driving tests will be introduced early because of the difficulties in people sitting beside each other." "There is no way, in the average car, that you would have two people together without breaching social distancing guidelines." "I don't intend to allow a breach of that.
There are sacrifices that we all have to make, and discomforts that we all have to endure," he added. Minister Ross also said he felt sympathy for young drivers who needed to get on