Colin Delaney

We're effectively running a national parking platform with some other partners at a private enterprise level.

And not everybody is on board yet, but it's something we've been aiming to do.

And it's our mission to try and get that done.

From a private enterprise side, we would have the likes of Eurocarparks, Cube Park, APCOA, these major players that are out there.

We have a lot of shopping centres in Ireland, hospitals, they're all connected.

In the public sector then, you've multiple local authorities, you've over 30 local authorities in Ireland, and I'd also count Northern Ireland, another 11 councils, because people travel north and south as well.

You need to have

a service, ideally, that somebody can do over one or two apps max.

And that's the aim we've been trying to do.

So I would say on the local authority side, some of the big cities are very progressive, like Dublin.

There are others out there that local authorities that are much smaller, parking is a much smaller issue for them.

They may not have the money, the budgets, et cetera, to connect these type of services together.

And I think that's probably where there's a need at a government level, maybe to get everybody aligned on it.

I would say that some years ago, around the recession, there was an office set up called the Office of Government Procurement.

Some years ago that was set up, and the idea behind that from the government was to help local authorities be more efficient and get value for money.

And they had tried to do that in parking, and they're still working on it.

And I think that's probably a step – it's not quite there yet – where you could help smaller local authorities

offer a service because they are costly.

It costs money to actually manage transactions and process and the technology and the apps and everything else.

So to allow those smaller councils get on board.