Fergal Browne (Fine Gael)

—fiasco of the overnight deregulation and the catastrophic effect it has had, even from the point of view that now one in five taxi-drivers has a criminal record and the undue hardship which is been put on the taxi-drivers' families. Will he state when he plans to act on the report of the Taxi Hardship Panel? Will he give them the compensation the panel decided or will he increase it, which is what Members want?

I ask the Deputy Leader of the House to clarify his own position. Last week we heard Deputy O'Donnell state that the Progressive Democrats have broken no promises made during the last general election, but certainly Senator Dardis made a promise to landowners in south Kildare regarding the new motorway—