Gerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

As someone who travels in taxis around Dublin all the time, I believe we are in serious danger of losing the service, or at least the quality and volume of service one would expect. The costs involved in running taxis, between fuel and insurance, seem to have gone through the ceiling. There are companies that lease the cars to drivers but I am not sure how that works. Is that in danger of also being shelved now because of the costs of running those cars? I am not sure whether it is a set figure that drivers pay every month to use the car. With running costs and everything else, are we going to start losing those drivers as well? Where will that leave us?