RSA announces price hike for driving licence and NCT

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RSA announces price hike for driving licence and NCT

The Road Safety Authority has announced price increases for a number of its services including driving licence fees and NCTs.
www.rte.ie
 
Hasn't been increased in over 10 years is my understanding, hence why this years increases are a bit chunky
 
New boss same as the old boss....at least that's what FFG talks are aligning on
 
Cervelo said:
It's small money in the greater scheme of things and as Peanuts says it's been years the last increase
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That's the RSA line alright...
The RSA said the fee adjustments were due to planned €18m expenditure on "public interest activities and government priorities".

It said these will be the first price hikes since 2012.
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The prices should be linked annually to something like the CPI. They could call it the anti-whinger adjustment.
 
They sought permission to increase fees earlier this year but Jack Chambers shot them down saying there was no need. Some time later questions get asked about their fitness for purpose arising from growing complaints about waiting times, service levels, and other issues. So it turns out they indeed did have enough money to continue doing a bad job. That publicity resulted in an external review who advised they had to raise fees to remain viable.
 
I booked an NCT yesterday (Dublin area) and was not short of times and dates on offer.

The NDLS is by comparison extremely useless in my experience.

Anyway these prices have to keep up with inflation which has been ≈20% since 2022.

More generally prices of state services should be reset more regularly and ideally with arms-length processes in place. Currently they tend to be done infrequently, in large increments, and only when viability of a service is threatened. The same thing happened with stamps a few years ago.

The Low Pay Commission is an excellent examplar - a thorough annual analysis put in the public domain with a recommendation for the minimum wage that the government can accept or reject.
 
One of the Healy -Rae' s on the Radio this morning said the RSA should be re- named the RWA....
Robbed Workers Association....
Perhaps he is right
 
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