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Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 May 2013)

Alan Kelly: Amendment No. 54 is a technical amendment and does not change the intended meaning of the provisions. It seeks to correct a typographical error in the cross-reference in section 33(1) to section 46, rather than section 47.

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 May 2013)

Alan Kelly: This amendment is very technical in nature and provides for precision in the table on page 42 in section 33. It follows from the fact that offences under section 19(4)(a), for substantial breaches, and section 21 (5) or 21(6) of the Bill are not fixed payment offences and will therefore only incur demerits upon conviction before the courts.

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 May 2013)

Alan Kelly: This is a drafting amendment to clarify and improve the wording of section 38. In paragraph 3(a), the word "premises" is changed to "place".

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 May 2013)

Alan Kelly: These are drafting amendments to clarify and improve the wording in section 38. In paragraphs 38(3)(g) and 38(3)(h), the amendment provides for the inclusion of records among the list of items that can be inspected or removed by item by authorised persons in the course of their enforcement duties.

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 May 2013)

Alan Kelly: Amendment No. 40 removes local authorities from the list of bodies set out in paragraph (c) the observations of which are to be considered by the NTA when consulting on maximum fares under section 23. The purpose of the amendment is to align paragraph (c) of the section with paragraph (a) which does not include local authorities. It is for the sake of consistency.

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 May 2013)

Alan Kelly: The amendments will have the effect that the offence under section 24(10) on the failure by a person to comply with a request to move on by a member of the Garda Síochána - previously an "authorised person" - will now only apply under section 24(7), that is, to a driver or a person in charge of a vehicle which is not a taxi standing or parking at an appointed stand. Previously, the...

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 May 2013)

Alan Kelly: Amendments Nos. 48 to 51, inclusive, aim to rectify an omission in the Bill concerning the application of mandatory disqualification in the case of a person with a conviction for offences which correspond to the road traffic offences specified in section 28(3). For example, a person with a corresponding road traffic conviction from Northern Ireland who has an application for or holds a PSV...

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 May 2013)

Alan Kelly: We have been down this road. The rental market needs to be completely changed. A certain television programme highlighted that not long ago.

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 May 2013)

Alan Kelly: It has not obsessed the Minister at all.

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 May 2013)

Alan Kelly: What the Senator has said is ridiculous and inappropriate. For the general public it exemplified the laissez-faire approach to the rental market, which was unacceptable and needed to be regulated. The Senator does not believe in proper regulation. I believe in proper regulation. I believe the taxi industry as currently constituted needed to be completely changed, hence the changes made...

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 May 2013)

Alan Kelly: Regarding amendment No. 36a, the amendments to section 21 of the Bill are drafting amendments which provide greater clarity on the prohibition on providing SPSV services without the required licence. The principle of the provision is unaltered. Regarding amendments Nos. 52a and 56a, the amendments to sections 32 and 33 are consequential as a result of the drafting changes to section 21 to...

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 May 2013)

Alan Kelly: I understand the Senator's motives.

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 May 2013)

Alan Kelly: As the Acting Chairman has said, the amendment was discussed earlier so I shall not go over old ground. We have had a comprehensive debate. I know where Senator Barrett is coming from because he has relayed his comments on numerous occasions. As he is well aware, the Bill proposes to create a regulatory framework. There is a capacity for new entrants. It was unfair of him to say that...

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 May 2013)

Alan Kelly: No. The amendment was discussed with amendment No. 17.

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 May 2013)

Alan Kelly: Usually an amendment is pressed rather than discussed again.

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 May 2013)

Alan Kelly: This is a minor drafting amendment to provide more precise text in section 17.

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 May 2013)

Alan Kelly: This amendment provides that the register of licences maintained by the National Transport Authority under section 17 includes details of the revocation of a licence also.

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 May 2013)

Alan Kelly: This is a minor drafting amendment relating to the cross-reference in section 14 of the Bill.

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 May 2013)

Alan Kelly: The introduction of a prohibition of transfer of the SPSV licence is a recommendation under action 14 of the taxi regulation review report 2011. The underlying principle for this proposal is that a licence should determine a person's suitability to carry out the function and should have no monetary value or be traded in the open market. The Senator and I are in agreement on that point. I...

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 May 2013)

Alan Kelly: I am cognisant of the High Court ruling concerning the constitutionality of imposing controls on entry to the taxi market. Therefore, I have had the matter examined by a senior counsel at the Office of the Attorney General. I conclude from that advice that the underlying policy principle for this decision is sound. Furthermore, as there has been a gradual move towards full prohibition of...