The Road Safety Authority has raised the cost of some of its services, such as NCTs and driving license payments, reports RTE.
The price of a learner permit will also rise by €10, from €35 to €45, while the cost of a driver’s license will rise by €10, from €55 to €65.
A complete NCT will now cost €60 instead of €55, and a retest will now cost €40 instead of €28, reports RTE.
Additionally, the pre-VAT cost of the commercial vehicle roadworthiness test will rise by 15%.
The pricing adjustments will take effect on January 1, 2025.
The RSA stated that the intended €18 million expenditure on “public interest activities and government priorities” was the reason for the price changes, reports RTE.
According to the report, these price increases will be the first since 2012.
The Irish Road Haulage Association has demanded that the government immediately reverse the “shock price increases” that it referred to, reports RTE.
It claimed that the hikes were unreasonable in light of government plans to disband the RSA and restructure its operations.
“Some Christmas present for the hard pressed customers of the RSA” is how IRHA President Ger Hyland described the rise.
“By allowing this price hike the Government is sending all the wrong signals about an Authority which the Government has already agreed to abolish because of concerns about its effectiveness. It makes no sense to reward an entity that has abjectly failed to fulfil its mandate across so many of its areas of operations,” he said, reports RTE.
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