Mr. David McGuinness:

I think we made the point to the Chair earlier that all the groups here, and taxi drivers in general, feel that the local county and city councils and the National Transport Authority are making it tougher for taxi drivers to operate. Dublin has had eight to ten prime taxi ranks removed over the past five to six years, and they have been replaced with taxi ranks down back alleys, where nobody wants to go to get a taxi. It looks like it is a deliberate policy to keep the taxis circling, not to give us a proper space and not to give the customers a recognised area, as they always used to have, to pick up a taxi.