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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are taxi drivers still predominantly male? Are they be in an older age group? Is that a fair question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Male or female?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I am a Deputy from Limerick city. Taxis are an integral part of what we do. We will go through these points with the NTA. Since the witnesses have TFI on their logo, it means they are essentially part of the public transport family. The question is how we proceed in that regard. I am a big believer in EVs. Every time I get it-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: No, I do not have one myself. Mr. Waldron stated the witnesses are a great advertisement; they are. The best authorities bar none on EVs at the moment are taxi drivers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: With climate change and everything else, I am a believer in an integrated model with road and rail. We have to move towards the EV model. It is just the way it is. It is just one of those things we have to accept.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I accept all that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is the role of the Government.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Government cannot expect the taxi industry to move without the infrastructure. I accept all that. Our engagement today was productive. The witnesses may feel we have missed particular points. I believe we have probably covered the bulk of them. There will be a public meeting with the NTA on the subject roughly at this time next week. The witnesses can follow up with us afterwards...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We have a role as public representatives. Certainly at this committee we have been pretty proactive on a range of measures-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will put it this way: if the witnesses look at our output to date, and considering that some have said we-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Well, we are not a talking shop. We will make a submission. The representatives are not in here just to talk to us; they are in here for us to get a brief so we can then plug into the various bodies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: It struck me. I remember the debacle when the TFI stickers were going on. For me, it is about an holistic model. Can we do without the taxis? No, we cannot. At the end of the day, for a myriad of reasons, people under pressure for time will take a taxi, be it in a rural area or an urban one. For someone with a son or daughter out late at night, but particularly a daughter, the taxi...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Waldron made a good point. If we are promoting EVs for the taxi industry, we have to have some sort of quota priority system. That needs to be examined also. We will push on that. I do not want to keep the witnesses too long. Does Deputy Ó Murchú wish to come back in briefly?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: At this moment in time is there anyone from any representative group on the TAC?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: How are those taxi drivers appointed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: A committee member has arrived now and I want to let him in. We must be out of the committee room by 4.30 p.m. regardless.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: At least we have done something constructive. It was worth the witnesses' while coming in for that alone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: It would be remiss of me not to bring this up. Someone referred to it earlier. Since Covid, first, people have left the sector and, second, there does not appear to be as many drivers going out at night and in the early mornings. Whether it is right or wrong, taxis are at this moment in time the public transport vehicle for people after probably 12 midnight - not everywhere but in many...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: How do we get to a point where more taxi drivers will provide a late-night service? Mr. Cooley stated that trains and buses should also operate late at night but how do we deal with that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: No, I am approaching this from the consumer side.