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Accompany Driver from US?

  • 13-05-2015 02:39PM
    #1
    Epicure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭


    Hey, just wondering if anyone knows this, as the guidelines are foggy at best in regards to this. But if I have a learner's permit and my accompaniment driver is a US citizen with a full US driver's license, can they qualify as my accompaniment driver? Or do they specifically need to have an Irish license? As I thought the whole point in the first place is to just keep the learner driver company on the roads with an experienced driver.

    Also on the website specifying the rule it simply says:

    "Car drivers with a learner permit must be accompanied at all times by, and be under the supervision of, someone with a current driving licence for a car. Also, the person accompanying you must have had the driving licence for at least 2 years."

    It only says a current driving license for "a car". Nowhere does it say what car, where the car is from nor the person with the license, so I'm confused.


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  • #2
    Epicure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭Epicure


    OSI wrote: »
    They do not qualify.

    Quite blunt, any proof of this? Which is what I asked... or is this just your opinion and understanding?


  • #3
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,196 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    OSI wrote: »
    Just to make it super clear:

    That seems to refer to the non-validity of provisional licenses or learner permits, where they exist, outside the jurisdiction of issue. But you're quite right, a US license is considered equivalent to a learner permit here. For some reason tourists in hired cars are fine, which is bloody daft. It's either a driver's license or it isn't, surely! :pac:


  • #4
    ProudDUB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    OSI wrote: »
    Their license is not recognised here for anything but tourist purposes, which is why if they're resident, they must acquire an Irish license via the same theory test, learners permit, driving test, full license route you do to legally drive here.

    That's not strictly true. A US drivers license is a perfectly valid license for an Irish resident to drive on, for the first year of their residency in Ireland.

    Once the year is up, they must acquire an Irish license. But during that initial first year, it is a perfectly valid license to drive on. It's not just something that tourists are allowed drive on for a couple of weeks, while they are off touring around Connemara & the Ring of Kerry.


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