Mr. David McGuinness:

Under the Taxi Regulation Act 2013, there is supposed to be four members of representative groups from the taxi sector involved in the TAC. There is currently one and Mr. Cooley represents the federation. The other two people are individual taxi drivers so they are not part of any representative group. I refer to the other three representative groups and Mr. Cooley's group at the time. During the pandemic I resigned my position from the TAC because of its total inactivity, it took too long to get everything that we wanted to get to support the industry and I would have been embarrassed by some of the decisions that the TAC was coming forward with to support taxi drivers during the onset of the pandemic. We are the largest four groups of representatives in Ireland. We wrote to the NTA with a list of proposals to reform the TAC to help the taxi industry have more direct negotiations with the Department of Transport. I think we supplied the initial email to the committee.