Ms Paula Hilman:

Yes. I would imagine that in most of those cases, there was no evidence of an appointment being made and there was no NCT. There was no evidence. There was clearly no NCT and people did not tell the garda they were driving the car but that the NCT appointment was coming up. Therefore, discretion was used. A very commonsense and pragmatic approach was taken. That is the approach we are still taking. I was advised that the backlogs are decreasing. However, those principles we applied equally apply at the moment.