Pádraic McCormack (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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Question 504: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason taxi drivers have no access to the rights commissioner, the Labour Relations Commission or to the Labour Court; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12269/08]

Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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For trade disputes, taxi drivers, who meet the definition of "worker" under section 23(1) of the Industrial Relations Act, 1990, have the same access to the Rights Commissioner Service, the Labour Relations Commission and the Labour Court as other workers. A trade dispute means any dispute or difference between employers and workers or between workers and workers connected with the employment or non-employment, or the terms of the employment, or with the conditions of employment, of any person.

In respect of employment rights, taxi drivers, who meet the definition of "employee" under the various pieces of employment rights legislation, have the same access to rights commissioners and the Labour Court as other employees.