Mr. Jim Waldron:

As I mentioned in my opening statement, the groups we represent are from cities, towns and villages throughout the country. We are all faced with the same problem. We need to make a living and we cannot do so in the taxi industry at the moment. Taxi drivers and hackney drivers - the SPSV industry - want equal recognition with the other parts of the public transport service. I welcome the suggestion by my colleague of a transport forum to allow people in the industry to engage with those who make the decisions because people who are not in the industry, for example, representatives of the hotel industry, are having a say in what we do or do not do. That is laughable.