Mr. Jim Waldron:

No. The problem is that there is no policy. A driver may take it upon himself to install a screen. The National Transport Authority does not consider any screen acceptable.

Drivers who are going for a suitability test have to remove the screen for the taxi to be approved. The interior of the car is usually checked and a screen is considered illegal and would have to be removed. There is no policy. We want to work with the National Transport Authority and develop a policy and a road forward, if the Deputy will excuse the pun. That is what we want to do but the National Transport Authority has not engaged with us. As my colleague, Mr. Macken, has already stated, there is one representative of taxi drivers on the taxi advisory committee. This is not good enough. We are the people to whom the NTA needs to talk.