Seanad debates
Friday, 27 June 2003
Taxi Regulation Bill 2003: Second Stage.
I welcome the requirement in the training section for taxi drivers to deal with people with disabilities. I tentatively put the following figures on the record, as I do not recall them exactly. I believe we were told that, prior to deregulation, something in the region of 1,500 to 2,000 wheelchair accessible taxis were used in that way. This has reduced to 13 according to the submission made to us. The Minister will be in a position to check those figures. That is a very drastic cut in wheelchair accessibility. The taxi representatives made the point that this occurred in direct response to precipitate deregulation.
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