If Mr Eddie Rooney has anything to do with it queueing may be a thing of the past. Mr Rooney, who is managing director of a large insurance broker, brokers, Rooney Insurance Group, had for many years been offering his motor clients a motor tax and licence license processing service that meant they did not have to queue up at the motor taxation office in Dublin.

For a few pounds they could leave their documents into his office and pick them up a day or two later.

The huge increase in car registrations - something he observed first hand as a motor insurance broker - and the serious traffic congestion in the city provided the right conditions ingredients for him to expand his service.

Last November, Mr Rooney opened the first Q4U offices in Swords and Portmarnock and as of last week, has has since extended it to offices at the Hibernian Way on Dawson Street, Waterloo Road and Bray on the southside, and at Beaumont and Malahide Road (opposite Clontarf Golf Club) on the northside.

"The idea is similar to a dry cleaners: you drop your documents and cheque off in the morning, we register the information on our computer, double-check that the forms are all filled in properly and then send them over to the tax office where we courier them over the Dublin Corporation tax offices where we have professional queuers standing in line all day."

You pick up your tax disk, licence license, etc by 2 p.m. the next day. The cost of the service is £5, except in the for all but the Portmarnock and Swords offices which charge £7.

Nine more city and regional Q4U centres are planned for the end of this year.

Mr Rooney's longer-term goal is to take over the car documentation business from Dublin Corporation, if and when the service is privatised.

"We figure we're already keeping several hundred extra cars from coming into the city centre," he says.

Q4U will be processing about 600 forms a day from their its seven existing offices. Negotiations are already under way with an airline, car leasing companies and even the Passport Office to be able to process forms for them or for tickets and other documents that people need to pick up.

Once the network is in place, says Eddie Mr Rooney, it only makes sense to branch out into other services that the public simply don't want to have to queue for anymore.