{"id":547,"date":"2021-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:34:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:34:51","slug":"nct-fee-to-rise-by-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micksgarageblog.org\/nct-fee-to-rise-by-10\/","title":{"rendered":"NCT Fee to rise by 10%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\">Irish motorists are to be hit with even more increases this month as the basic fee of getting your car tested in an NCT centre rises by 10%. The current fee of \u20ac50 will be replaced with a fee of \u20ac55, with the re-test fee of \u20ac28 remaining unchanged.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-CBSdCT0Esys\/T_XC9oE4hcI\/AAAAAAAAASI\/PnzINCHXwOQ\/s1600\/nct.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"243\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-CBSdCT0Esys\/T_XC9oE4hcI\/AAAAAAAAASI\/PnzINCHXwOQ\/s320\/nct.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\">Transport minister Leo Varadkar has indicated that he wants to make the Road Safety Authority &#8211; which over-sees the running of the NCT tests &#8211; self-financing, and this move is thought to be just one in raft of measures to do so.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\">The extra charge has already been slammed by commentators, claiming that the move will cause &#8216;significant difficulty&#8217; for drivers who are due to get their car tested.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\">The new fees for the NCT are due to come into effect from February 1st.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCT Fee to rise by 10%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - 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