I welcome any move to improve road safety, in particular trying to clamp down on the use of learner permits. However, I fear that we are overlooking in this the very small cohort of people who simply cannot cope with the driving test. In many cases, it is down to illiteracy. They are in the age range of approximately 35 to 65, and their illiteracy is in part due to not getting education and supports at the time. When I talk to the Road Safety Authority, it tells me that there are great supports for doing the theory test, but the reality is these people simply cannot do that. Many of them are living in isolated areas in rural Ireland. I know of one man who is confined to a tiny village. It does not have a shop any more and has no public transport. I would like to see something done for what is a very small cohort. I know we had a successful amnesty for driving licences in the past. I am not proposing anything on that scale again, but I am proposing something that will look at these people. Modern society is about a glass floor through which we allow nobody to fall, but there is a small cohort of people out there who are being overlooked.

I woke up this morning and was delighted to listen to "Morning Ireland", which told me it was broadcasting from America. You wonder sometimes if RTÉ ever listens. Nobody in Longford this morning mentioned the mid-term elections in America to me. I do not think anybody is talking about it except a small cohort of media people in RTÉ. When RTÉ sent a crew over from the newsroom in 2008, it cost €160,000. I am sure Mr. Bakhurst will have learned and RTÉ will not have spent that much this time. An old boss of mine, Eugene McGee, once asked me if I knew what news was. I told him I did not. He said it was anything that two people talked about. As I said, I heard nobody in Longford this morning talking about the mid-term elections in America. I do not know what RTÉ has staff over there for.