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Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: What about controlling the taxi ranks? I suppose the authority has a responsibility about how these are operated.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Who monitors and enforces those regulations? Has the NTA a team of inspectors who monitor behaviour at the ranks?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Is the taxi rank at St. Stephen's Green one of the ranks monitored?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Have complaints been made to the authority about ranks stipulating Irish-only drivers and ranks stipulating foreign national-only drivers operating in the city?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: What is the talk about the O'Connell Street rank?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Is the authority doing something about it?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Has the authority ever sanctioned a taxi driver for racist behaviour or investigated a taxi driver for allegations of racist behaviour?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: The NTA is the industry regulator. We know that a particular rank in O'Connell Street might have particular problems relating to racism between taxi drivers. Certain taxi drivers are being excluded because of their perceived ethnicity, colour or nationality. Why is the attention of the authority not focused on O'Connell Street by having an officer present all the time to ensure this is not...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: This is mob-like behaviour where certain people or groups of people are controlling ranks. These are meant to be ranks accessible to every single taxi driver who wants to pull up and take a passenger from them. However, they are unable to do so because it is a white-only rank.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: But is the authority ensuring they can pull up?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Why not try to deal with it? Why not implement a programme for improving integration between taxi drivers or for knowledge awareness? Why not provide different courses undertaken by other areas of Irish life to help with these kinds of issues? Why not take it on as a role for the authority?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: I would advise such action. The authority should take it upon itself and the board of the authority should discuss the matter. In my view it is a responsibility of the board to deal with this. Every time I get into a taxi or I am out in Dublin at night I see what is going on and I hear the complaints. I get complaints to my office from all sorts of people from every walk of life. It is...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the witnesses.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: Which public sector body is that?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: The council is coming this summer. How big is the building?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment will fill the building. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: The lease for its building is up. Is that the position?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: There is a rent review every five years on the lease of the building. Is that the position?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: It will be up for review in 2014.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Eoghan Murphy: What will happen with the rent review?