Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)

I move amendment No. 1:

In page 6, line 3, after "driver)" to insert the following:

"and a small public service vehicle having seated accommodation from more than 5 persons (including the driver)".

The reason for the amendment is to allow certain taxis, hackneys and other small minibuses to operate local public transport passenger services in urban and rural areas. There are many examples throughout the European Union of taxis and small minibuses operating public transport services in peri-urban and rural areas where there are lower levels of demand to provide feeder services to local and longer distance bus, train and light rail transport services. It is somewhat related to amendments Nos. 2 and 7. It seeks to insert a provision which would help us to provide a better local transport service by allowing smaller vehicles to be included under the definition of a bus.

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