Tallaght has the longest waiting list for a driving test in the country with 7,000 people in the area awaiting to get on Irish roads.
In total, nearly 58,000 people are on the list nationwide.
Brian Farrell, from the Road Safety Authority, says it will take several months to clear the backlog.
He told Newstalk: "We're hoping to be at a situation where we are at a national average waiting time of 12 weeks in February of next year.
"That will go some way towards providing driving tests within a reasonable period.
"At the height of the closure of the service we were telling people that they would be expecting waiting times of anything up to six months or more, so we are making progress."
According to Freedom of Information figures, 15 test centres in Ireland currently have over 1,000 people on their waiting list.
This includes venues in Dublin, Carlow, Cork, Galway, Kildare, Limerick, Louth, Meath and Waterford.
Overall, there are 92,500 RSA driving test applications in the system at the moment.
And over 10,000 of these have a scheduled appointment.
Another 24,500 applications are deemed ineligible - this may be due to the drivers not completing enough lessons on time.
The other 57,600 are eligible for a test but remain on the waiting list.
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