Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Cost of Insurance Working Group: Minister of State at the Department of Finance

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Is that as much as the Minister of State can say? Yes. The issue was raised repeatedly by me and others as well as by taxi drivers that premiums for them were so high that their livelihoods were at risk. If they had even the slightest prang, it could push their premiums to a point where it was not viable to operate as a taxi driver. That is still a particular problem and we need taxis. Something had to be done about this. It was agreed that the taxi advisory committee would meet Insurance Ireland with a view to looking at the specific problems with insurance faced by taxi drivers. Then a report would come out of that engagement.

What is coming out of that? Is that going to address the problems faced by taxi drivers?

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