Taxi provided to Dara Murphy campaign without tax or NCT 'an oversight'

A taxi with expired NCT and road tax discs which was provided to European Affairs Minister Dara Murphy’s general election campaign has been taken off the road.

The party’s director of elections in Cork North Central, Noel Cafferkey, confirmed the vehicle was no longer being used to transport canvass teams working on the Fine Gael junior minister’s campaign after the out-of-date certs were highlighted on social media over the weekend.

Photographs of the expired tax disc and NCT cert displayed on the windscreen of the Renault Trafic passenger van were posted on Facebook on Saturday. The tax disc expired in December 2015. The NCT expired in mid-January 2016.