Mr. Jim Waldron:

There has been no communication on restart grants. There is no doubt in my mind they will be needed. Every driver is facing an insurance bill of between €3,000 and €10,000. We have not worked now for four months so there is not much money left in the coffers to pay between €3,000 and €10,000 in insurance. We want to keep providing a very good service. Prior to Covid, 82% of people said they only had to wait less than ten minutes for a taxi. We want to keep that service. If we do not get the grants and supports we will be going back to the old days whereby people were waiting 40 minutes or an hour standing at a taxi rank. We do not want that; we want to continue to provide what is classed as one of the most professional taxi services in the world.