Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Mr. Waide and Mr. Walsh and thank them for their attendance and the presentation. We have always had good interaction between their organisation and the committee so hopefully we can continue with that.

On the NCT side, there are a number of reasons. We know some of the problems and staffing seems to be one of them. I have had a concern for a while about the level of pay for the staff. If the jobs are so unattractive that we have to go to the Philippines to bring people here to test our cars, or to Spain or wherever, that would seem to indicate a problem. Perhaps the problem is closer to home. Perhaps these people are not being appropriately remunerated to allow them to stay with the service or to attract people from outside. Trained mechanics, if we are to believe the future in terms of electric vehicles, will not have the same level of requirement as with the standard propelled car. It seems to me rather strange that there is not a supply of people available to the NCT.