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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Just over half anyway are based in Dublin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Gerry Horkan: After that, is it Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Gerry Horkan: And in the smaller towns and villages-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Say we go down to rural Kerry, Tipperary or Mayo, are there many taxis or is that where the illegal part comes in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Gerry Horkan: To clarify for people looking in who might not be familiar with the terminology, what is the difference?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Gerry Horkan: So this is the old hackney term, is it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Is that as prevalent as it was?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Are there very few hackney licences now in existence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Gerry Horkan: How many would there be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Gerry Horkan: So we have about 18,000 taxi drivers registered, albeit some of them inactive, and only in the hundreds for hackney. There is no real advantage in being a hackney now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Gerry Horkan: There are no new hackney licences so they will over time vanish.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Is that a much cheaper process than a taxi licence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Gerry Horkan: What is the difference?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Would the app still work for those people?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Gerry Horkan: In the old days, you could pick up on the street if you were a taxi and the hackney had to be rung. Before mobile phones, that was more complicated.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Gerry Horkan: The reason you might do that is the business is light and it is a cheaper process but you cannot pick up on the street so that is a disadvantage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Gerry Horkan: A good few points have been raised by others and I do not want to go back over them. It seems there is a litany of points. There was a taxi regulator and that has been absorbed into the NTA over time. Has that system made it worse? Were all the problems just as bad when there was a taxi regulator?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Gerry Horkan: It has not improved it, but it has not made it worse either.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I think he may have appeared in front of our committee, myself and Deputy O'Donnell, because I think he went up into the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Gerry Horkan: We will not impugn people who are not here to defend themselves. It did not improve the situation, is what you are saying.