Mr. John McCarthy:

The moneys will not really come to my Department. One of the complications that has arisen over the course of the years when departmental functions were being changed around was that motor tax came into the Local Government Fund. One of the payments out of the fund was to the Department of Transport, which then paid the local authorities for roads, for example. One of the streamlining and transparency-boosting features of the arrangements for 2018 is that motor tax will go into the Exchequer. The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport will be funded through the Vote in the ordinary way for its roads programme, and it will pay the money straight on to local authorities.