723 Deputy Seán Barrett asked the Minister for Transport his views on the Taxi Regulator’s proposed prohibition on taxi and hackney owners in relation to the conversion of their existing vehicles to wheelchair accessible use and the consequent additional expense that will be incurred by the owners in the purchase of custom-built wheelchair accessible taxis and hackneys; the way he proposes to address the issue of monitoring the prioritisation of bookings for people with disabilities in wheelchair accessible vehicles in view of the favourable taxi licence level of €125 for such vehicles as against €6,300 for standard licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29667/08]

Summary

723 Deputy Seán Barrett asked the Minister for Transport his views on the Taxi Regulator’s proposed prohibition on taxi and hackney owners in relation to the conversion of their existing vehicles to wheelchair accessible use and the consequent additional expense that will be incurred by the owners in the purchase of custom-built wheelchair accessible taxis and hackneys; the way he proposes to address the issue of monitoring the prioritisation of bookings for people with disabilities in wheelchair accessible vehicles in view of the favourable taxi licence level of €125 for such vehicles as against €6,300 for standard licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29667/08]

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

• Taxi Regulations.

  xml · EN · 24 September 2008

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.