Frank O'Rourke (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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171. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are measures he could propose to reduce the current long delay in getting vehicles VRT tested in north Kildare and west Dublin (details supplied); if he will extend the facility to deal with the current unacceptable delays; if he will establish an additional VRT test centre as a matter of priority for the Celbridge, Maynooth, Leixlip, Clane, Kilcock areas of North Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31594/16]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by Revenue that an increase in the volume of applications to the NCT for vehicle registrations has resulted recently in some increase in waiting times.

As part of a wider solution to address this, extra VRT capacity has been added to a number of NCTS centres to deal with the increased demand and a VRT function is being added to the Deansgrange NCTS Centre in November to allow for more capacity to assist in the greater Dublin/Kildare area. Also, five additional staff start VRT training on Monday 24 October to increase capacity in a number of NCTS Centres nationally.

For authorised dealers in the Kildare area there are also two mobile units which operate from Dublin and one mobile unit which operates from Carlow.  These are in place to assist dealers to get vehicles pre-inspected at their premises.  For more information please refer to the Revenue website: .

Revenue continues to monitor the level of service being provided by the service provider, Applus, and is satisfied that the service currently provided, while stretched at times, is a reasonable service overall and that customers are normally able to make a suitable appointment.  Should the on-going demand for VRT registration services continue to increase, consideration will be given to expand the existing service provision.