As you go through life, there are some things which are so certain that you can set your watch by them. For example, if you fall out of the 2nd floor window of your house, you get hurt. If you put your hand in a Flymo while it’s plugged in, you can forget learning to play the piano. And if you have too many driving instructors, they’ll all start moaning that there isn’t enough work to go around and the overall quality of instruction will go down.
Someone should explain that to the Irish, as this story makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end, so certain is the outcome in a year or two’s time.
A driving school is cynically capitalising on the new Irish driving test by offering “scholarships” to unemployed people. In other words, it is trying to increase its own business by adding more ADIs to the pool. It claims it is to “take people off the dole queue”.
Well, in order to significantly reduce the dole queue it would have to create a lot of ADIs. If it only does a handful, then the effect on the dole queue is negligible. Then, of course, there is the age old issue of whether just anyone can be a good ADI (and Ireland has only just got around to trying to sort its seriously flawed driver training system as it is). In other words, if someone is “unemployed”, are they necessarily automatically “employable” in a job like this?