Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Unfortunately, I cannot. I will not be agreeing to the amendment. The matter of quantitative controls in the taxi market was already addressed in the courts, as we previously discussed, and the outcome was the liberalisation of the taxi market. The Bill does not provide for any quantitative restrictions on the taxi market in line with the view taken by the review group in the Taxi Regulation Review Report 2011, which I chaired, which recommends that the future approach to the regulation of the SPSV market should involve qualitative improvements to standards and the enforcement of the regulations.