Mr. David McGuinness:

One of the issues with removal from O'Connell Street is finding where to drop off a passenger who wants to go to a hotel on the street. There is nowhere to drop off passengers anymore. They have to be dropped on Cathal Brugha Street. Capel Street and South William Street are the same. Grants are being given to taxi drivers for wheelchair accessible vehicles. Those wheelchair accessible vehicles cannot access some of those areas now. The decision regarding Capel Street at night time used to be a great idea. One cannot pull in anywhere now. If disabled people are at a restaurant on Capel Street, we cannot get to them. The rush to pedestrianise everywhere and get rid of the taxi stands, particularly after the pandemic, was too quick. There were no discussions with the industry as part of that.