Mr. Ray O'Leary:

-----categories they fall into in terms of the vehicles and, therefore, it is back to the absence of standards. The Revenue Commissioners, in registering vehicles, have regard to certain categories they have for registration in respect of the vehicle registration tax, VRT. Revenue refers to categories of vehicle that are largely set at an EU level with some national variations and they, in turn, are related to the motor tax levied on them.

As they have not gone through the kinds of processes that, for example, mopeds, motorbikes, cars, vans, trucks and buses have to go through before they are released onto the market, we are handicapped in trying to bring them within the regulated environment.