Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given for a grace period for car owners whose National Car Test certificate has expired, but are booked in for a test and would ordinarily have completed the test before certificate expiration only for the current excessive waiting times. [27923/22]

Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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Under Directive 2014/45/EU all Member States of the European Union are required by law to carry out periodic roadworthiness inspections on motor vehicles at regular intervals throughout the lifecycle of the vehicle. The minimum requirements regarding frequency of testing is transposed into Irish law by means of the Road Traffic (National Car Test) Regulations 2017 (S.I. No. 415 of 2017) 

There are currently no plans to amend this legislation and consequently it remains an offence for any person to drive a vehicle on public roads and in public places without a valid NCT.