Mr. Aidan Dunning:

All the databases referred to by the Deputy would be very valid. There is also a database within our own family, if one wants to put it that way. The ESB has a database also in regard to houses' GPRNs and electricity connections. As the household charge is built up, and when the property tax builds up, the associated data will be of assistance. There will be an amalgam of bases or areas that we can look at. An Post already has an important database in relation to the television licence fee system that it has to operate. That would obviously be a practical issue that will have to be bottomed out to ensure it is efficient, effective and capable of being administered. The question of who will administer it is a big issue also.