Mr. Gerry O'Malley:

That is a good description of where we are. I do not want to argue on semantics here but we would not contend that the NVDF is not up to date. It is up to date as regards the 4 million to 5 million motor tax transactions and the 1 million changes of ownership that hit the system every year and all the outputs for the system, right down through penalty points and associated business. In that sense it is an up-to-date system. As the Secretary General said quite accurately, there is a problem in closing the life cycle of the motor vehicle and getting the designation of its being destroyed, scrapped or out of business, in effect at the end of its life. The EU directive on end-of-life vehicles has assisted considerably in that regard.