Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 24 July 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I thank our guests for attending and for their submissions, in particular where they outlined the concerns about Dublin Airport. Earlier we heard concerns about the aviation industry in Dublin Airport, but it is really important that our guests in this session have set out the experience and difficulty they are having.
Coming away from the economics of the matter, I turn to the issue of protecting workers, whether bus workers or taxi drivers, through mask compliance. The taxi driver submission refers to compulsory mask-wearing in taxis as a form of public transport, like everywhere else. What has been the experience so far of mask compliance for drivers who are having to enforce it? We saw a difficult video on social media yesterday and that is just one video. What has been our guests' experience, as representative groups, so far?
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