Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion
Mr. James Maguire:
I probably did. In any event it is called escalation. Escalation means that there is a technical department within the NTA which will have a look and see if that car is suitable. Why is it not suitable if ten more of them have been licensed already? This is all bureaucracy, red tape, where there is the existence of a technical man in the NTA doing this job. It is just impossible to go through all of these things. If the driver is off the road, he or she could be in that position for three weeks or more. We need somebody to appear before the committee to ask the NTA questions, whether it is by taxi drivers or otherwise, because it is a joke.
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