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

I want to raise what happened yesterday at the Committee on Transport and Communications with the ongoing delays with National Car Test, NCT, testing. We heard justification yesterday that there are supposed to be 18 days of a wait for NCTs across the country, which is factually incorrect. People are waiting for four, five and six months in different parts of the country to get an NCT. Also, in the area pertaining to the RSA, our driving testing waiting lists have gone out of all order. It is clear that the RSA and Applus+ are in complete disarray, and they are locked into a ten-year contract that was signed in 2020. This must urgently be reviewed by the Government.

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