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- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: The Senator has made his point. Does the Minister of State wish to respond?
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I have heard the Minister of State make that point a number of times.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I thank Mr. Waide for his opening statement, which I listened to in my office. I want to pick up initially on the national car testing service. Mr. Waide said the average lead-in time for an appointment for tests is currently 24.5 days. I am online at the moment looking at dates. The booking system is telling me the earliest slot is 19 April for Deansgrange and 3 May for Drogheda. There...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I thank the Chairman for his input, but I am trying to save the planet as best I can by keeping it on the road longer. The next slot in Letterkenny is 25 January. I can find nothing within 24.5 days anywhere. Where does this figure of 24.5 days come from? This is based on what is available online. I presume the vast number of the RSA's customers do this first before they ring in a panic...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: In Drogheda, where Deputy Ó Murchú is from, it is further away than that. What is the explanation for Mr. Waide's figures versus what is online?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: As it happened, the priority list was still quite a bit away.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Eventually, I found a slot that was in two days' time and jumped on it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: That is correct. When I did need it, however, and when I actually tried to do it within the 90 days to get it done well in advance of looking for it the week before I needed it, it was not offering me anything for six months at that point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Yes. I also looked at Fonthill, Liffey Valley and various other locations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Yes, but that is where many of the cars are, which is obviously were there will be problems.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I will ask a linked question to that. How many cars are in existence out there that Mr. Walsh knows need an NCT and do not have a valid NCT?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Surely, under the law, people are supposed to get tested before their certificate expires. Is Mr. Walsh telling me that at the moment, there are 355,000 cars most likely being driven around with a certificate that has expired?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: That is the figure I am asking about.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: The questing I am asking is how many cars are out there with a certificate that has expired?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I just mean expired. They are-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Their certificates expired on 29 September or 8 October and their owners have not yet presented for a new test. The RSA's database must tell us how many cars are in existence. I accept that some of them could be off the road or whatever. Obviously, if a person is scrapping them and so on, he or she would do all the documentation for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Those on the waiting list do not have appointment dates. They are waiting to get an appointment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I want to nail this down, if I can. If I ring this morning and say that I need a test, they will tell me that they will put me on the priority waiting list. At that point, I do not have a test date. I am just on a list, waiting to be given a test date.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I accept that but there are 31,000 people, or thereabouts, who have rung up and asked for a test and have not yet been given a date for one. There is another group of people who have been allocated a test but who have not taken it yet. Then there is another group of people who have not even looked for a test and their certificate has expired. How many people are in the last group?