Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Equally, if they know the car is going to fail, they do not want to spend the money on making it safe. I have more of an issue with the people who persistently do not go and whose NCT is a long time out of date, and they just kind of ignore it. There seems to be quite a large volume of vehicles in the NCT database that have never been tested or have been tested a very long time ago. Maybe somebody, whether it is An Garda Síochána, the RSA or the National Car Testing Service, should focus in on these long-term persistent offenders because as we said, if people are going to drive without insurance, they are being irresponsible and if they are driving long-term without a valid NCT, they are being equally irresponsible in a different way. We should be drilling into these bad actors. Anybody can make a mistake, but if people are regularly driving without insurance or an NCT, those people are more likely to cause an accident than somebody whose NCT is out of date by two weeks.