Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I wish to ask Mr. Lee a couple of questions. I understood that all English vehicles coming into this country can be checked for A, B, C and D and to see if they were hit. Am I correct? I understand that such cases require an NCT and that one cannot register an English vehicle and drive it here if the vehicle does not have a NCT certificate. I also understand that one can draw insurance on anything that gets hit here. When one looks for insurance, the insurance companies have all of the data relating to a vehicle.

I presume the NCT people know their job as they are qualified mechanics. I would imagine that if they were doing an NCT, they would know. Is the FCI trying to make more paperwork and more work for its own people?

I have driven lorries and have done the driver certificate of professional competence, CPC, and, to be frank, I knew more than those who were training me. There is frustration among lorry drivers when the person testing them as na leabhair. Always remember that word. Many people have read the book but to do it in practice is different. There is a major problem with CPC courses. I believe France is not doing it and their youth have been told to go where the sun does not shine, as I heard the other day. The courses here need a revamp. If a person wants to do five days in a row over the five years, he or she should be allowed to do it that way. Currently, if a person wants to do that, he or she must call the RSA and give this bullshit story that he or she could not do it the other way and then do two together. A person should be able to do the five days if he or she wants to do so.