Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

——the car will be clamped, which will be costly. That should be a matter for either the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government or the Department of Transport. I have never seen people abuse the blue form. In Athlone we have these signs for the disabled in shopping centres and anybody I have ever seen emerging from such a car was disabled. Nevertheless, I accept the point raised by the Senator.

Senator Ryan also decried the recent submission by the National Competitiveness Council. I did too. I thought it was lame, wimpy and weak as regards its case for a property tax. We do not want it.