A new National Car Testing Service inspection centre has opened in Navan, Co. Meath located on the old Athboy Road. It is the second NCT centre in the Meath region. The opening of this new two-lane centre will see the NCTS network increase to 49 centres nationwide and over time, create an additional 12 jobs for the Meath area.

Speaking ahead of its first day of operations, Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Hildegarde Naughton TD, said “I am delighted to see the opening of this new two-lane centre in Navan which will serve the vehicle owner population of Navan, Dunshauglin, Slane, Trim and Athboy and will provide motorists with a convenient alternative that’s close to them, rather than having to travel to other neighbouring centres in  Kells, Drogheda and Ballymun, Dublin The new centre in Navan will play its part in keeping vehicles and roads safe.  The NCT as an important preventative road safety measure,  ensures vehicles, particularly older vehicles using Irish roads are in sound working order, ensuring our roads are a safer place for our families and communities to travel. Of course, we should not forget too that it is also enhancing the environment by reducing harmful vehicle emissions”

NCTS provider, Mr Mark Synnott, Managing Director Applus+ Inspection Services Ireland Ltd said: “We are delighted to serve the people of Navan and surrounding areas with this new two lane centre, we are now inspecting more cars than ever before and in order to manage the increased demand for testing, we are delighted to open this new NCTS centre in Navan. Since Applus+ took over the operation of the NCTS service in January 2010, we have employed an additional 140 employees across our nationwide network of 49 test centres. Currently, we employ over 600 vehicle inspectors who combined carry out over 1.8 million inspections on an annual basis.”