Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I support Deputy Verona Murphy on this. There is an issue we might focus on. Obviously Covid has had a huge impact on all aspects of Irish society but one that I do not think is in the spirit of solidarity that we are all embracing is that the RSA has a contract with a company that goes around to check all commercial vehicles. The anecdotal reports coming in are that a budget or contract price was agreed for the year but because of Covid the level of work fell off because nobody was on the road or the company was not allowed to go around. Now there is this mad race to "do" enough people, for want of a better expression, to justify the contract price. There is an overzealous number of checkpoints. I am not supporting rogue drivers but it appears that if these people stop drivers they will find something. Someone could buy a truck one day and the next day the company would find something wrong.