Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)

Legislation was promised in response to my Bill, which I tabled for the Labour Party in Private Members' time, and the Government suggested it was preparing legislation. That is over two years ago and there has been no sight of the legislation. It is not listed in the Government legislation programme.

I refer to Nos. 89, 90 and 91 on the Government legislation programme, the road transport Bill, the sustainable travel and transport Bill and the transport infrastructure Ireland Bill. The Government has not yet agreed the heads of the three items of legislation yet someone outside the Dáil is drawing attention to the chaos that prevails in the taxi industry as the livelihood of taxi drivers has been destroyed. There is chaos in the office of the regulator and there is no provision for people to park. Livelihoods are being wrecked and the heads of three items of legislation that might be amended to handle the issue of putting proper shape on road transport as it affects taxi drivers and the public have yet to be agreed by the Government.

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