Dr. Keith Walsh:

To explain, the Road Safety Authority has historically been self-funded, effectively. It collects money through the services it provides, including driver testing, the NCT and driver licences. Pretty much all its funding has come from those sources. The fees for driver testing, the NCT and so on had not changed since 2012 or 2013 in most cases. The revenues were very stable but the RSA's costs went up considerably over that period because of inflation and-----