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

A major anomaly has emerged for taxi drivers as regards their licensing that I would like the Taoiseach to address. During the pandemic, taxi drivers whose taxis were just about to reach the ten-year point when they had to get rid of them were given a two-year extension because there was no work for two years. Taxi drivers got the two-year extension if their cars were registered 141, 131 or 121 but cars registered 151, which are just about to come up to the ten-year point next January, do not get that extension. This is even though these cars were off the road for two years, were not used for two years and, therefore, did not have the wear and tear. A few other years are also affected. In fact, there is now a bizarre anomaly whereby younger cars will have to be got rid of before older cars that got the extension. Taxi drivers are very simply asking that cars in the fleet that were affected by two years of effectively no work should get the two-year extension to remove that anomaly. They had to pay back loans on those taxis when they had no work.

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