Mr. Ian Talbot:

-----they were asking where that came from. There is a danger in the long term. The best thing we can do is to make an incremental change annually so people are expecting it. If something is announced and people are given three years before it is introduced, human nature is to forget about it. I was thinking about the fundamental changes coming in our economy, such as the advent of electric vehicles because we are so dependent on excise duties, vehicle registration tax, VRT, and all these sorts of things. As we increasingly move towards using public transport, what will this mean for VRT? It is these sorts of changes that I am referring to. We need to bring the population along with us as well. We had the debacle with water charges, for example. The question here is how we get people on board and get them to realise that they will be paying less tax for their fuel because we will have energy from loads of wind farms. This energy will be really cheap for people's cars, but we will still have to pay for the roads we drive on.