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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: In that case, the best would not be more than 60% and the worst not would be less than 48%
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: This is for driving tests rather than the NCT.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: It could be made better for everybody's best interest.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Is that calendar or working year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Out of a total of how many?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Nearly half of them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: People were going through the system but they were not necessarily getting it within 28 days.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: It was not costing Applus money either or it was not potentially going to cost it money.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I am sure it was happily for the sake of the Deputy's marital relations. I thank Deputy Ó Murchú. I will come in on a number of points. In terms of long-term planning, we are talking about five more centres and recruiting more people. Mr. Synnott mentioned the fact that cars are getting older and the availability of new cars. Obviously, once they are four years old, regardless...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: It was probably August or September or maybe even July. My date is October so I generally try to look for July or August.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Fewer staff were available and, therefore, there was less lane usage because there were fewer people to cover the lanes. That makes sense. In terms of the long-term planning, we are saying cars are getting older and the availability of new cars is not as easy as it was.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: There are the guts of 2 million cars in the system and on the roads. Obviously, in the first four years they do not need to see Applus but they are coming. What is the long-term plan for 600, 800, 1,000, 49 or 54 cars? The other question, which I do not think anyone has touched on and I have been here the whole time, obviously, is that no-one has mentioned electric cars and how easy or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: That is really the only difference.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Okay. Suspension, brakes and all those things like windscreen wipers and all the rest of it will still be included.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Will that speed up the test much or not a lot?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Even when we get to a higher figure, it still will not be a huge change.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Okay. Mr. Synnott mentioned the point about the diagnostic issue. I went to a garage one time and it gave me a quote for nearly €1,000 worth of everything and anything from suspenders and constant velocity, CV, joints and CV boots to all four tyres and everything else. I went down for the NCT and I needed one CV boot cover or something, which cost me approximately €140. That...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: The ten-week target is for the driver test.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Could that not be less?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Based on Mr. Waide's opening statement, he is saying that the level of people in the system is not going to clear the backlog. Where are we going with that? Where does Mr. Waide see the 19-weeks waiting time being by the summer of this year or by Christmas? Does he see it at 19 weeks or-----