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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We will ask the NTA questions next week. I call Mr. McGuinness to speak now, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is 4,000 plus approximately another 4,000 drivers who could be affected by the start of January.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I call Mr. Waldron to speak briefly, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I call Mr. Egan to contribute now, briefly, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We would hope not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Egan is basically saying that nobody becomes a millionaire driving a taxi.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Egan is just saying that he is doing what he wants to do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Point taken.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I call Deputy O’Rourke again, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Absolutely; we are doing a structure. I call Mr. Dempsey to speak briefly, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I wanted to develop that point in my own question as to a structure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I call Deputy Lowry now, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The NTA is appearing before us next Wednesday.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I take it Senator Horkan has a few concluding remarks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: There might be points that we have not covered today that the representatives might assist us with.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We have the four points.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I move to non-members. Deputy Boyd Barrett and Deputy Ó Laoghaire wish to come in as well. I will be liberal with time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is it fair to say, Mr. Cooley, that the ask of the taxi drivers is a relatively straightforward one? We are coming out of a pandemic and many of the members of the organisations represented here today were not operating for a long period of time. They are not looking for cars to be an infinite age, they want to keep them for 15 years, to allow drivers sufficient time. I would have thought...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I must say to Deputy Boyd Barrett that representatives of the NTA are appearing before the committee next week at the same time. He is welcome to join the meeting to discuss these issues.