Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

One of the penalties on companies is that they are required to provide the test free if they are not in compliance. Why is that not happening? Has the Minister of State talked to the RSA about that? Will the Minister of State tell us how many are on the priority list? If everybody was on that list, it would not solve the problem of the lack of personnel to do the job. The priority list is for exceptions. People will want to be in compliance. That is why the lists are so long. People are trying to be in compliance. The worst one on the list was Kells at 42 weeks. Nowhere in the country is good but the top ten are all in Leinster. The Dublin centres are all in that top ten. Carndonagh in Donegal is the quickest of the centres but they are all bad across the country. None are in compliance, according to the NCT.

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