First, in respect of the electric cars, and I have always said this, the general public are not fools and when the electric car is reliable, affordable and will be a realistic option, people will buy them. I have no doubt about that. Diesel and petrol cars are reliable and will take people the distance. It is about getting people from A to B, especially those in rural Ireland. They have longer journeys to make and depend on a reliable car. There is the question of if and when we will have infrastructure sufficient …

I will sell the Deputy one. It is 2006.

It has only 780,000 km on it.

One would only land here about once in a fortnight.

The Deputy must think I am a complete fool.

I would do that to go home.

And one is not going to do 80,000 km.

That is why they need to build the bypass.

I worry when I hear Deputy Ó Cathasaigh wondering where the Government will get extra tax and revenue if it gets rid of-----

-----diesel and petrol cars in favour of electric cars. Many people would need to know that something is going to happen, if we have a total electric system, that means they will still be paying excise in some form or other to make up the difference or the loss of the taxes the Government is getting already. People are very disappointed the Government is totally focused on electric cars. There are other ways of reducing emissions with the cars we have, such as liquid petroleum gas, LPG. In 1975 my father bought a d…

I do not see the benefit in that. When you see a flame a mile long underneath it-----

-----it does not make any sense in the world to be stopping fellows putting a few sods of turf in the fire.

In the Congo it is child labour.

I have done 780,000 km.

I am glad to get the opportunity to talk about housing again this evening. We should be striving to give confidence to home owners. At the present time, they are frightened about the eviction ban and by all of the talk about eviction. I honestly feel that this is doing more harm and is ensuring that people will not rent out their houses. That is where we have gone wrong. There are so many vacant houses in good places but people just will not rent them out. There are two reasons for this. The first is that the tax t…

I am glad to get the time to raise this important issue with the Minister of State. This residential zoned land tax is having an adverse effect on farmers, especially dairy farmers, close to our towns in County Kerry, and I am sure it is happening all around the country. It is happening in places such as Killarney, Tralee, Listowel and Castleisland. Many of these farmers have not slept since they got notification at the beginning of April that they were liable for this zoned land tax. Some of these farms are classi…

I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I have read all that he read out. Farmers have been notified by the local authorities that they are liable for the tax, even for land that is zoned as strategic residential in reserve. That is wrong. These are active farmers. It is recognised there is no demand for this development land around Killarney. There is no demand as such. In 20 years' time, if farmers have to wait that long, their land might still not be sold because we are waiting for a bypass. For some of the…

I thank the Minister of State.

Ivana says she is going to build 1 million houses. I would not trust the Labour Party to build a hen house.

If they did cobble something together the fox would clean it in one night.