Mr. Hugh Creegan:

I will answer one other question Deputy O'Keeffe raised. He asked why we see the alarm bells only now. In fairness to us, we have recognised for a long time that the local area hackney service system is not working. This is largely down to insurance and a small bit down to the administration side. Nine months ago, we brought a proposal to our taxi advisory committee, about which I spoke, and it has been under discussion since then. It is not that we are just waking up now; we are conscious that this needed correcting and we are trying to achieve broad agreement as to what to propose.