Seanad debates
Friday, 27 June 2003
Taxi Regulation Bill 2003: Second Stage.
I am delighted with the provision in the Bill that refers to people who commit crime while they have a licence. I am not soft in my approach to criminal conduct, but I want people who have paid their debt to society to be given a fair chance. I am impressed by the element of the regulation which ensures that anybody who commits any one of a list of crimes is potentially liable to be deprived of their licence immediately and be banned for up to ten years. That is certainly welcome and necessary to give confidence to the travelling public.
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