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- 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.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That has been made clear today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is not an unreasonable demand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is a common-sense observation. So, the taxis carry the TFI logo?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: There is no public bus to get home either.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does Mr. Dempsey wish to contribute? No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I ask Mr. Maguire to be careful about mentioning parties that are not here. He mentioned Aer Lingus.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We have to be careful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: For my own questioning, I want to recap. I will systematically go through what we will bring up with the NTA representatives next week. I will deal first with the issue in respect of when somebody is buying an EV. In essence, we are saying there are a combination of factors. We face a cliff edge on 1 January, when up to almost 4,000 taxis may not continue or, if they do, might do so at...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Can a licence be transferred from one family member to another?