Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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Does the NTA, as the regulator, have a sense of what is an appropriate number of taxis for the Dublin area that it is aiming for and hopes to have in place by mid-July, the end of July and by the end of summer? To follow up on that, if the NTA takes these measures, and I see it is limited in the levers it has to the fare structure piece and the recruitment campaign piece, and we end up in a situation, at the end of October coming up to Hallowe'en, that is no better than it is now, will the NTA consider the ten-year rule? There will be 5,300 vehicles off the road before this time next year, which is going to compound a difficult situation. Will the NTA look at that issue and at the transferability? Is it open to the prospect of things not improving in the medium term?