James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

To insinuate that the waiting time in Youghal is less than 28 days is disingenuous. I will not say it is anything else. When members of the public, no matter where they live in County Cork or Munster, go online today, the closest available appointments in almost all south Munster testing facilities are in January at the earliest. Nothing else is showing up. I do not know where Mr. Synnott is pulling these figures out of because they are certainly not being pulled out of the website. I invite Mr. Synnott to check the website now if he does not believe me. The nearest date I could get is 16 January. For the testing centre that is physically closest to people living in Midleton, Cobh and Youghal, the closest date they can get is 10 February in Littleisland. They could be waiting up to 26 March for Youghal.

The dates that have been provided to us are not accurate. Nowhere have they appeared on the NCT site. I have had my staff check and I have checked as well. It is utterly disingenuous to come in here and claim those dates are true, as they are not. Nowhere have I seen that information.