In response to a number of contributions, particularly that of Senator Tuffy, I must point out that the Minister said when the Bill was introduced that the decision to remove quantitative controls on access to taxi licences stemmed directly from a series of High Court decisions. Not to have enacted the legislation immediately in compliance with the High Court decision would have left the Government of the day and the local authorities open to further legal challenge which would have prompted immediate liberalisation. In fact, had there been further legal challenges there would have been even greater chaos.