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Tue 10 Oct 2007Private firm may quadruple number of its driving testsThe Road Safety Authority (RSA) is prepared to quadruple the number of driving tests carried out by a private company to ensure that all second provisional licence holders can do a test by next June.Currently 126 State-employed testers are carrying out 4,000 tests a week, including 800 which they do while on overtime in the evenings and at weekends, under a deal agreed between the authority and trade union Impact.