Given the huge backlog in the number of Kerry motorists waiting for their NCT test – through no fault of their own – there has been a call for successful test results to be valid from the date the assessment was carried out rather than the original due date.
Highlighting concerns on the matter, Cllr Marie Moloney said, under the current system, somebody that has had to wait six months to get a test date would have to get their car examined again six months later as that was the original due date.
Kerry County Council agreed to Cllr Moloney’s request to write to the minister asking that any applicant that has had their vehicle caught up in the backlog should be entitled to have successful pass certificated valid for 12 months from the time of issue.
“Otherwise they will be due a test again six months later and that’s not acceptable,” Cllr Moloney said.
The average wait time for a test in Kerry is now six months
There was a pass rate of just under 59 per cent for full NCT tests carried out in the county last year with just under 70,000 vehicles checked in total.
28,126 NCT tests were conducted at the Killarney test centre in the Woodlands Industrial Estate, with a pass rate of just under 60 per cent.
In Tralee there were 36,670 tests and 10,177 failed and there were 4,850 inspections conducted in Caherciveen, with a full test pass rate of just below 52.
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