Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 March 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Small Public Service Vehicle (Consolidation and Reform) Regulations 2014: National Transport Authority
10:25 am
Mr. Hugh Creegan:
Yes. It is more difficult than we would like it to be. Effectively, what we have to do is engage the driver, take the journey, pay the fare and then we can prove in court that a journey was taken for hire or reward. As one can imagine, because we have only eight compliance officers, they have become pretty well-known around the country so it is very hard to do that. We get a lot of co-operation from the Garda which gives us people from other counties to take the journey, but it is more difficult than we would like it to be.
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