Mr. Jim Waldron:

Can I just say that over the past two and half years or so, the DAA has refused to speak to the representative bodies on various issues throughout the airport. Our meeting with the authority last week was our first time to meet it in two and a half years. We are hoping to have a further meeting in the next two weeks.

Regarding drivers passing the Deputy by, there is a permit system. There are 1,500 drivers permitted to work at Dublin Airport and they usually park up in a holding area. For the last year or year and a half, the calling system has been faulty. We have highlighted this over and over. There may well have been taxis in a holding area not being provided to the taxi rank while the Deputy was standing there. I do not know for certain but that could be the case.