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NCTS: Priority booking for SPSVs

NCTS have made specific provisions for licence holders in a limited number of NCT centres. Please call the NCT contact centre on 01-4135960 for an update.   The priority inspection process for SPSVs is as follows: The usual NCT booking process is followed The usual testing process is followed up to the point where the...

National Car Test Service: Update

NTA is in continued talks with NCTS regarding the specific SPSV process and will provide updated information here. It is also important that vehicle owners continue to book and attend their NCT tests. If NCT appointments are not made and attended as usual, the backlog in getting the final third of the NCT completed will...

Statement from NCTS (Applus)

“31st January 2020 NCTS Update Re: Vehicle Inspection Lifts NCTS can confirm that we have now recommenced underbody inspections in a small number of centres nationwide. The reinstated vehicle inspection lifts will only be used for those drivers who are due to undergo a Driving Test shortly, Taxi Drivers and those due for retest. Those...

National Car Test Service

RSA and NCTS have both committed to prioritising full NCT inspections for SPSV operators, in particular those with imminent licence renewal dates.  Practical resolutions are being developed by RSA & NCTS in this regard. NTA are in contact with NCTS/Applus and RSA several times a day to ensure the continued prioritisation of SPSV licence holders...

Gardaí Appeal for Information

Gardaí appeal for information in relation to the ongoing investigation into the murder of Keane Mulready-Woods. Investigating Gardaí are seeking assistance from taxi drivers with any video footage who may have been in or passed through Malahide Road, Fairview, Ballybough Road, Clonliffe Road, Poplar Row, Luke Kelly Bridge between 11pm on Tuesday 14th and 2am...

Increased Purchase Grants for Electric SPSVs in 2020

There has never been at better time to make the switch to an electric vehicle and support the transition towards greening the national SPSV fleet. A new grant scheme to support vehicle licence holders who wish to operate an electric SPSV opens on January 1 2020. Application forms for the 2020 scheme will be available...

Appeal for information regarding incident at O’Connell Street Upper, Dublin 1, on the 3rd November 2019

The Detective Unit at Store Street Garda Station, Dublin 1, are currently conducting enquiries in relation to an incident of serious nature that occurred in the areas of the Taxi Rank at Cathal Brugha Street and O’Connell Street Upper, Dublin 1, in the early hours of the Sunday the 3rd of November 2019, between 01:00hrs...

National Maximum Fare Review 2019 – Surveys

2019 Taxi Driver Survey – National Maximum Taxi Fare Review 2019 Taxi User Survey – National Maximum Taxi Fare Review