Mr. Ken Spratt:

I was not speaking about motor tax. I might ask my colleague, Mr. Mullaney, to come in on this point if I am wrong. We were talking about the allocation of funding from the Department to local authorities from the central Exchequer. That is based on kilometres to be serviced by the local authorities. I said that as I understand it, the four Dublin local authorities are not provided central Exchequer funding because they self-fund. I might ask Mr. Mullaney to confirm if that is right because I am not sure it is.