New drivers paying €2k for someone to sit the theory test for them

That’d drive ya demented.

This is mostly done by people who don’t have the language skills to pass the test. Poor effer is probably in debt to some gangster for this fee too.

Probably. Sadly, the literacy level with some undocumented people and people trafficked into Ireland would be quite low too even if they had English.

€2,000?

I would have done that for €500. He was robbed.

How would undocumented or trafficked people even get a license?

not an excuse.

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Pure unadulterated stupidity coupled with a healthy dose of fcuking laziness. Theory test is probably the most basic exam imaginable and I know plenty who would have English difficulties who had no problem passing their test. In fact, when I sat mine, I ran into a chef I worked with who was from Sri Lanka. He got 38/40!

2k? Must be the same people who built the bike shelter in Leinster House.

Once for motorbikes and once for cars :)

they wouldn’t is the answer. They’d get something adjacent to a licence I’m sure but plastic card with fake details does not a licence make.

It is in the realms of Hollywood only to have a fake licence registered to ndls. There’s no point carrying around a fake licence as the Gardai can scan it with their mobility app to check its validity.

I also suspect you’ll have bigger problems being undocumented if stopped at a checkpoint than a drivers licence. Your man here could sat his theory test 35 times for the money he spent and still had some money left over to pay the €35 fee for a bloody learner permit and a few euro for L plates.

You actually couldn’t make this up.

To be sure, to be sure.

When my wife moved over from England 25 years ago someone in her work offered her a full driver's license for £400, he told she would even put on the system. Don't know whether he was BSing because she declined but €2000 seems ridiculous for a learners permit.

If you did the test 3 times but only failed once… what was the third attempt for? 😲

that’s my curiosity as well the photo etc. they take one of you when you come in and are getting checked in & as you say they check and double check ID!

I say there must be some organised aspect to this with regards to test centre staff being involved. It couldn’t just be an outside operation there has to be staff in the test centres helping these people.

Aa I posted above once for a motorbike permit and once for a B car permit.