Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)

The report is publicly available. Many of the taxi representatives have digested it already, judging from the significant volume of representations coming into the Department.

I do not know if any other Minister has met with the taxi groups as often as I have. I brought four different people from the taxi industry on to the review group. I have had and will continue to have dialogue with them. They made submissions to the review which were all taken on board when drawing up the recommendations.

They also made comments afterwards about the review. Within the main, however, most of these comments were quite positive. Obviously, there will be some differences of opinion. I expect these can be ironed out during the implementation process which has already begun. I will be reporting further to the Dáil and the transport committee on this process in the next several weeks.

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