An alarming development in the car hire business was brought to my attention the other day by someone who arrived here and tried to hire a car. This American man has a house in County Wexford but he could not hire a car because he was over 70. I do not know if all car hire firms are introducing this regulation but it would be serious if that sort of problem arises. This man's wife managed to hire a car because she was under 70 but if we start to refuse car hire to people over 70, who are big spenders and who, as Professor Des O'Neill of Trinity College Department of Geriatrics told me, have good driving records, it would be a very serious development.