Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

You should have that figure for us today. It is unacceptable that you do not have that figure because we are hearing from the public that they are petrified about being stopped by a garda. There are genuine people who have applied for the test but will not get it before their NCT certificate goes out of date. They are worried about how members of the Garda and their insurance company will view that. We are talking about roughly 390,000 cars. The priority list of approximately 31,000 has, with all due respect, become a general list because everyone who rings up wants to get on that list. I do not want to eat into Senator Horkan's time but approximately 1.5 million cars will be tested this year. How much of an increase is that on previous years? There are 390,000 cars out there, or roughly 20% of the 1.5 million, awaiting tests. There is a serious issue here.