Mr. John Farrell:

It was a five part question. I will let Ms Kinnarney deal with a couple of parts and I will deal with the rest of them.

Deputy Munster asked about the monitoring. It has to be a reasonable period of time to make it attractive to people. If a person has accumulated points over, say, three years, and the accumulation is six or eight points, two or three or four of which are due to run out within 12 months, one could see a position where a person would decide just to let it run out. There is no attraction there. We see it as somewhere between three to six months. Around three months would be the monitoring period.

There are two parts to the costing question. Because the RSA has protocols in place for dealing with certificates of professional competence and professional drivers' accreditation and reportage they have the systems in place to handle the reports and to send out the penalty points. From our point of view there will be minimum cost.

We are currently speaking to a number of people about the big imponderable, which is the app and its cost. This includes the reporting structure and all the stuff tied in to that. While it is a simple concept, it involves how the app feeds back to one's phone and reports back to the phone. That is a bit of a grey area at the moment and is being discussed with a number of people.

We know the RSA has been given our initial proposal and more recent, updated one. It has written back through a Deputy to say it is very interested. We have not yet met with its representatives but we would love to do so.

I will leave Ms Kinnarney to talk about the smartphone and compulsory or voluntary part of the-----