MOT testing backlog at DVA centres

2 releases from 2 parties, 16 August 2022 to 18 August 2022.

Each party’s website press releases, in order of publication

1. Muir calls for urgent measures to cope with MOT backlog

   • Alliance
   • 16 August 2022
   • Call for action
   • Criticises a public body, agency or council
   • Contains a proposal

   Alliance Infrastructure spokesperson Andrew Muir MLA calls for the Department for Infrastructure to reintroduce temporary exemption certificates for MOT tests to ease the backlog. He also asks for a longer reminder letter period so motorists are not left travelling long distances for test slots.

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2. O’Dowd needs to get a grip of MoT fiasco – Lockhart

   • DUP
   • 18 August 2022
   • Criticism
   • Criticises the northern ireland executive, a minister or department
   • Contains a proposal

   DUP MP Carla Lockhart calls on Infrastructure Minister John O'Dowd MLA to publish the DVA plan to cut record MOT and driving test waiting times, saying the existing plan has failed and needs rewriting. She also urges the use of Temporary Exemption certificates for motorists affected by the delays.

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Parties with no matching press release found on their website

• Sinn Féin: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• UUP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• SDLP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• TUV: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• Green Party: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• PBP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website – coverage for this period is incomplete (partly recovered), so a statement may have been missed.
• Aontú: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website – coverage for this period is incomplete (partly recovered), so a statement may have been missed.

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