Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael)
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Question 686: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding a hackney business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35917/11]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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The NTA has direct responsibility for the regulation of taxi services and many of the issues mentioned are appropriate to the NTA. I have therefore arranged for your question to be forwarded to the NTA. If you do not receive a response within ten working days, please notify my private office.

Insofar as the matters mentioned refer to the wide-ranging terms of the taxi regulation review group, that I am chairing, I expect the review to complete its work shortly. As I have said repeatedly, the aim of the review is to enable necessary further reforms of the sector to allow consumers to have confidence in the taxi system while also ensuring that legitimate and competent operators and drivers can be rewarded fairly by operating under a regulatory framework that is adequately enforced.