Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Recently, the Tánaiste made references to the possible introduction of Uber to this country. Over the weekend, The Irish Timesdetailed that the origin of this was John Moran, the former Secretary General of the Department of Finance, lobbying a former Minister to put Uber's plans into the election manifesto of Fine Gael. What is the attitude of the Taoiseach to all of this? We had taxi drivers absolutely hammered during Covid. It is still unclear whether the Government will meet their demand to do away with the ten-year rule. It is a big problem for them given all of the lost income. The last thing they need now is Uber coming in and completely undermining the taxi industry in this country at the behest of corporate lobbyists.

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