Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 September 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

National Car Testing: Discussion

Mr. Brendan Walsh:

I do not believe so. The service will be back to normal by the end of the year. At that point we believe we will be entering into normal SLAs with Applus+. We have come through the worst of it. We have reached a point now where nationally we have a national waiting time of around 18.6 days. That will continue to improve as we bring more people into the service. We have done that. We sat here in February this year and in the following couple of weeks, we approached a lead time of almost 30 days within the NCT, so we have seen significant improvement. However, from the perspective of Applus+, service credits are still applied against it for non-performance of the contract. We will continue to apply them. I will ensure that the service is brought back to the way it should be and will be kept there for the future.

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