Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chairman. To be honest, I must apologise as well as I have to go back over to the Dáil. We are bouncing back and forth. I heard all the presentations at the outset and People Before Profit will support all the demands the groups are making.

I thank Tiománaí Tacsaí Na hÉireann, the NPHTA, the Irish Taxi Drivers Federation and the Taxi Alliance of Ireland for all their work in representing taxi drivers. One thing that I cannot understand, and I think the committee should ponder, is why it is that an ordinary car can stay on the road if it passes the NCT, but a taxi that is perfectly okay to drive has this arbitrary nine-year rule imposed on it. I support drivers on that.