Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I congratulate the Chairman on his new role. I want to follow up on some of the points made by my colleague. Serious dissatisfaction was expressed earlier between representatives of taxi drivers and the NTA. They specifically spoke about the issue around insurance and the difficulty whereby insurance companies blamed the NTA, saying that it did not change its rules for the period of the pandemic and that it did not negotiate with taxi companies from the point of view of people being able to reduce their premium from a taxi driver policy to a regular policy to allow them continue their regular work of bringing people to doctors, shopping or whatever the day-to-day activities all of us needed to engage in, during a period when they could not work. When the witnesses have a conversation with the NTA, I would request that this issue is put to its representatives first and foremost.

We know the issue of insurance crosses many Departments. I would like to think that the witnesses would be part of the conversation on finding solutions. They may wish to comment on that.