Mr. Sam Waide:

Like others, I welcome the opportunity to come to the committee for this meeting on road safety. The most important thing from an NCT perspective is that every bay and mechanic is fully utilised. I am satisfied that is happening. Yes, the waiting times continue to be unacceptable. I apologise to customers for those wait times as I do with the driver testing. The Deputy gave some figures today and he referred to them last week. I was not at the committee last week. I have some figures before me but they change daily. There are 365,000 customers waiting; 48,000 have been tested, failed and required retesting; 200,000 have been provided with a booking; 7,000 are on a waiting list for an appointment; a further 35,000 vehicles have been tested which are not due until later next year and 8,500 vehicles are on the priority list. That is to recap for the public record. That is down 65,000 in February when the RSA last appeared before the joint committee. There are 100,000 vehicles which are not taxed or insured.

The Deputy raised the contract with Applus+. The RSA is incurring service credits on Applus+ as a result of it not meeting specific service level agreements. That was stated last week at the committee.