436 Deputy Kevin Humphreys asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of financial surplus the Office of the Taxi Regulator had at the end of the last fiscal year in view of media reports of a surplus of €20 million in October 2010; the use to which this surplus was put when the Office of the Taxi Regulator was dissolved on 1 January 2010 and was subsumed into the National Transport Authority; his plans to use this surplus to improve taxi ranks or the services provided to those working in the taxi industry; if he will allow the taxi regulation directorate to subsidise drivers upgrading their vehicles to make them wheelchair accessible with the fee surplus as was requested by the regulator in 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12504/11]

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436 Deputy Kevin Humphreys asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of financial surplus the Office of the Taxi Regulator had at the end of the last fiscal year in view of media reports of a surplus of €20 million in October 2010; the use to which this surplus was put when the Office of the Taxi Regulator was dissolved on 1 January 2010 and was subsumed into the National Transport Authority; his plans to use this surplus to improve taxi ranks or the services provided to those working in the taxi industry; if he will allow the taxi regulation directorate to subsidise drivers upgrading their vehicles to make them wheelchair accessible with the fee surplus as was requested by the regulator in 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12504/11]

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