Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to amend section 15 of the Taxi Regulation Act 2013 to ensure that taxi drivers are required to nominate a person to continue to operate a taxi licence in the event of the licence holder's death; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17731/18]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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The regulation of the small public service vehicle (SPSV) industry is a matter for the National Transport Authority (NTA) under the provisions of theTaxi Regulation Act 2013.

As the Deputy refers, section 15 of this Act provides that an SPSV licence may continue to be operated by a person who was nominated by the licence holder in advance of his or her death.

While I have no plans to amend section 15 at this time, I recently was made aware that there have been some cases where licence holders have passed away without completing and submitting the required nomination form to the NTA. As a result, I am asking the NTA to consider further raising the level of awareness around the associated nomination process and would certainly urge all SPSV licence holders to take the time to complete the nomination form as soon as possible.