Mr. Matthew Pencharz:

As the Chair will probably expect, I completely agree with colleagues. VOI was also one of the companies that wrote to the Minister. It is important to disentangle power outage to speeds because they are completely separate things. We operate in two hilly cities in England. We have been talking about Bristol and also Bath. If we were to have low-wattage vehicles there, they would arguably not be able to safely and reliably pick up speed while going up these steep hills. I know that Cork is pretty hilly, so I can imagine that there would be a similar problem there if there were lower power outage machines------