It was certainly out of hand and out of control that the man involved in the X case got a taxi licence and subsequently assaulted a passenger. A well-known Dublin criminal was shot while driving a taxi. What about the potential passengers? Some other gangland person could have come along and blasted off at that individual when there were passengers in the taxi. That is a cause for concern. It is important that we continue to focus on this and weed out the people to whom I refer. While there is always a possibility for redemption, the proportion is quite out of hand. Am I correct that approximately 1,500 people with criminal records are employed driving taxis? The number is certainly very high. The Minister knows the figures. That is out of hand and unacceptable from the point of view of protecting the reputations of decent taxi drivers and, more importantly, the people who use taxis.