Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Senators. I cannot accept the amendment. For starters, I do not accept that the NTA is over-regulating this. We are ensuring there is the appropriate licensing of dispatch operators who have an intermediary function which needs to be regulated in some form.

I accept wholly what the Senators stated on the disintermediation of such dispatch operators. The different applications, such as the mobile phone applications and the online applications, are changing the face of how one books and interacts with taxis. More change will happen, some of which I will announce in the coming weeks. I cannot accept the amendment proposed by the Senator.