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

For the third time, I ask the Taoiseach - he gave me a commitment, but I have not heard back from him - about taxi drivers who have reached the ten-year deadline to replace their taxi. It is a very expensive business to replace a taxi. As I pointed out, people who were approaching that deadline during Covid-19 got an extension but only for certain years. Drivers of cars from 2015, 2016 and 2017 do not. As of January, we will have an anomaly. Unless those who lost income - that is the point; they lost income and employment for two years - are treated in the same way as those who did get an extension, we will have an anomaly in January where 2012, 2013 and 2014 cars will still be on the road. They got an extension, but drivers of younger cars from 2015, 2016 and 2017 will be told to get off the road even though they can get an NCT, and the cars are perfectly suitable for the road. The taxi drivers need to know now about their financial situation. Some of them will be out of business if they have to replace their cars because of lost income-----

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