Ms Moyagh Murdock:

I will do my best to answer that question and perhaps draw on my engineering experience. That legislation was introduced under the EU regulations. We sought and got a derogation not to implement that back in 2012. We have had an extension at this stage, so as not to move to the eight-gear test standard. However, the situation is now that we have given many of the driving training schools an extension so they could have time to invest in new capital equipment so they can conduct training and carry out the tests. There is a feeling that it will impose some hardship on people but we have worked with the stakeholder group to push that out as far as possible. However, we are now in a position where we must implement the latest standard, which is an eight-gear driving test.