Michael Lowry (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

When it appears before us, we will take those points up with the authority.

Can our guest speakers clarify one issue for me? I raised this question in the Dáil a month before the recess. I was at Dublin Airport and the Dublin Airport Authority, DAA, is also answerable to this committee. I seek clarification about a time I came in on a late-night flight at Dublin Airport and there were no taxis in the rank. Taxis kept passing me by but I could not get anybody to stop. Eventually, I made inquiries the day after and a taxi driver himself told me that once he dropped a fare at Dublin Airport, he had to leave the airport and could not come back to collect somebody. To clarify, what is the situation in that regard? If people arriving at the airport, particularly foreigners coming to our country, need a taxi late at night but see this thing happening whereby the taxi rank is empty because everybody has gone out and all these taxis are spinning through the airport, dropping people off but not being allowed to come around and collect people again, it is ludicrous.