Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour) | Oireachtas source

What the Senator has said is ridiculous and inappropriate. For the general public it exemplified the laissez-faire approach to the rental market, which was unacceptable and needed to be regulated. The Senator does not believe in proper regulation. I believe in proper regulation. I believe the taxi industry as currently constituted needed to be completely changed, hence the changes made here. Anybody who knows anything about the industry knows that the rental market has been all over the place, so to speak, and that the way one got the different components to be able to drive a taxi was unacceptable. That is why it needed to be changed.