Ms Anne Graham:

There are quite a number of questions there. We have indicated that we have extended all licences by three months until 12 June and we will review that in line with the SPSV suitability inspection centre reopening. We do not have an indication of when that will be or when the NCT centres will reopen. We will align our possible extensions with when the testing can be done but we are awaiting dates for when the testing centres will be available for taxi drivers. We will of course work with the test centres to try to get priority for tests to ensure that we can get as many taxi drivers as possible back into the system.

I do not have any information on the Covid-19 payment, that information would not be held by us. It is a Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection payment and we do not have any information on which SPSV drivers have availed of that.

On the reinstatement, I might get back to the Deputy on that if he does not mind just to tease out a bit more what exactly he is asking there.

On the ten-year rule, we went out on consultation on an extension for one further year and that is what was agreed with our board. We will bring that back if the taxi drivers want to consider a longer rule. We prefer to extend it by just one year but, certainly, all of these things can be considered at any time.

We have outlined comprehensive guidelines on our website; it is very difficult for us to give very clear guidance on screens because of the different types of vehicles that are used by the SPSV sector. We have put in place guidelines on our website based on the public health advice.