Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

If all the emphasis is on car owners to ensure vehicles are safe at all times, and it is in their interest and everybody else's, why have an NCT at all? It does not make sense to me to have a test to say the vehicle is roadworthy today and the NCTS will give a piece of paper saying it will be another 12 months until it needs to be tested, while if a person has an accident, the insurance company will tell him or her it is an issue if the NCT is up but if not if it is not up. I just do not get the logic of suggesting that somehow or other it does not last for 12 months. It does last for 12 months. The piece of paper on a person's windscreen tells them it is a 12-month test.