Seanad debates

Tuesday, 1 July 2003

Taxi Regulation Bill 2003: Committee Stage.

 

If we passed this amendment it would create difficulties, particularly in areas outside Dublin such as Letterkenny, Galway, Carlow and Kilkenny. Imagine the difficulty a hospital would have in an area that does not have a large number of accessible taxis. The hospital would have to say it could not get a person a taxi because of its policy to use only accessible taxis. In Letterkenny only ten out of 100 taxis are wheelchair accessible. The number accessible in Galway is 42 out of 361, in Killarney seven out of 71, in Cork 32 out of 647, in Athlone three out of 78, in Carlow six out of 44 and in Kilkenny four out of 95.

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