Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

No, that would phenomenally complicated. I request the age profile of the cars on the road on one sheet of paper. On a separate sheet of paper, I would like a chart showing what it costs a person to tax the old cars that were 1,000 cc, 1,100 cc and so on, on a single transaction basis, a six-monthly basis or four transactions per year. This should also list the extra costs motorists have to pay on top of their motor tax for the year. It is now on record that the cost of processing these payments online is approximately €5 per transaction. We will help the Department to be fair to motorists. That is one of the advantages of coming before the Committee for Public Accounts. This unfairness stood out when I saw the report, quite apart from the financial issue.

I was waiting until we got to the end of the meeting because we did not have time to discuss it. I think everyone understands where we are.

At this stage we will bring this substantial section of the meeting to a conclusion. I thank witnesses from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and Transport Infrastructure Ireland witnesses for being. They are free to leave. For the record, we are not formally noting the accounts for anyone at the moment, but that is not an issue because we will be producing an interim report and will note all of them in a block some day down the road. We have a procedure for doing so.