Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 September 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion

Mr. Alan Cooley:

I will answer on the taxi advisory committee. I joined that committee a month ago. The first observation I made related to two representatives on it. One was from a taxi app group, which I thought was a vested interest that really should not be on the taxi advisory committee, because any decisions would help that group to make money off the back of taxi drivers. The second representative was from what is probably the largest rental vehicle company in Dublin. I again observed at the meeting that new applicants into the industry were kind of being pushed into the rental industry. The committee was ready-made for the taxi rental company and the taxi sharing app company, who are making money off taxi drivers and not helping them, to be there sitting at the table. They will make money on commission obviously, which is extra commission at present. That was my one observation regarding the taxi advisory committee, that is, that it is basically stacked up against the driver.

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