We have visits here from members of another taxi forum, who won't sign our online petition. They are going back to their own forum saying. Spook, I have a great idea. What about an online petition as if spook has never visited ours. Boys thats childish.. If you put up a petition I will sign it. You see I don't give a fuck about this forum, only about providing for my family. This mentality of "beyond the Pale" is crippling our Industry. My photo is not on this site because its our struggle, not an effort to get attention. Folks you ever hear of that saying " Devide and Conquer" Well thats what your doing. If your loyalty is to a forum and not your job and family, no wonder we fucked............
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"ineffective, wasteful bureaucracy" was a description of Doyle's role in Taxi Regulation
November 6, 2009 by daithii4u
The Commission for Taxi Regulation is an ” ineffective, wasteful
bureaucracy that should
be disbanded”, the chairman of the Dail’s
Transport committee claimed last night.
Fianna Fail Galway West TD Frank Fahey said he will table a motion
seeking to disband the
office after Commissioner Kathleen Doyle
appeared before the committee yesterday to
provide a progress report on
further reforms to improve the industry.
He was clearly unimpressed after hearing her response to a
recommendation by the committee
last year to provide more space for
taxis at taxi ranks in major centres around the country.
“I think your
answer sums up all that is wrong with your organisation and control of
the administration of the taxi industry in this country,” he said. He said her claim the commission can only provide guidelines to
local authorities on the matter is “a load of gobbledygook”. “There is
total chaos in regard to spaces. This committee made a very simple
request to you 12 months ago,” he said. “We’ve just got nowhere.” Ms
Doyle said she was “very disappointed that the committee hasn’t
acknowledged the hard work the commission has done”.
Dial Transport Commitee meets Taxi Regulator.
November 6, 2009 by daithii4u
The Irish Taxi Council attended a transport committee meeting at Dail Earann Yesterday where the Regulation Commissioner was questioned closely by Chairman Frank Fahey, Tommy Broughan and other members of Transport Committee. The ITC are Happy that many of our worries were addressed to the Regulator by the committee. We thank Frank Fahey Tommy Broughan and co for listening to full time drivers . The chairman of the commitee has stated he will recomment a proposal to disband the Taxi regulation commission.
New Dublin Taxi protest Video.. Oct 1st 2009
October 23, 2009 by daithii4u
Dublin Taxi Protest new video............
Re: New Taxi Regulator Reforms
October 16, 2009 by daithii4u
In short here are the proposed changes reforms from the Irish Taxi Regulator........................................................................................................
# From 2010 a new Wheelchair taxi comes into effect and most likely this will insure it's too expensive to operate, so the commission will look at making all licences Wheelchair available.
# Ending transferability of licenses for all new licenses. Existing licenses can transfer just one more time subject to it being changed to a vehicle Three years or less.
#The introduction of a Fleet license for those with multiple licenses, ie renting or leasing. This licence would make the holder more accountable.
# Fast tracking the 9 year rule. Instead of coming in in 2012 it begins from 2011.
# More frequent checks on Tax clearance and PPS numbers of all drivers. The collection of a database and multi-agency sharing.
#Drivers skills development brought forward, To be completed by 1st Jan 2012.
#Compliance and Enforcement, Looking at potential approaches to greater enforcement such as making it easier to identify where drivers are licensed to operate.
Re: What You Just Paid For
October 14, 2009 by daithii4u
get this I am sitting the one for busses and HGV on the 2nd November, 7 hours just €70 at the Days hotel. This woman is either incompatible or getting back handers.
Re: Chaos in Irish city centers due to number of Taxis and nobody in Authority wants to address it.
October 10, 2009 by daithii4u
Chaos in Irish city centers due to number of Taxis and nobody in Authority wants to address it.
October 10, 2009 by daithii4u
If you overcrowded a Nightclub the firm hand of the law would come down on you swiftly, but if your a Government saturating city centers with more taxis that it could possibly need, creating unsafe condition for drivers not to mention emergency vehicles, a blind eye is turned. In Waterford 16 city center rank spaces cater for more than 400 Taxis. Constantly drivers are forced to take risks to get a rank space of face going home with no income. The response from policing authorities you would imagine would be to address the overcrowding and submit their concerns to Government, But unfortunately this is Ireland the response here is to fine Taxi drivers and ignore the more serious issue of road safety.
Re: Scabs in the Taxi industry
October 9, 2009 by daithii4u
How have you been keeping. Hope all is well. The power struggle is fairly obvious between driver reps. To be honest they work best when they are hungry for power, when they get it there just the same as the rest. Look I would not worry about Roy or his cronies, For some reason on the TFC website all Dublin blogs and forums get mentioned but ignore sites outside the Pale, funny attitude for a crowd that want to represent Ireland as a whole. That attitude just shouts out "more of the same".
Sccail Welfare officers raided Waterford Ranks yesterday 7/10/2009
October 8, 2009 by daithii4u
Four welfare officers went to the Michael street rank and to the Hospital and Railway ranks. Not surprisingly there was a mass exit from the rank as soon as word spread. Drivers disappeared for the Day. Some of these drivers have even been working in the industry for decades. I am not saying there defrauding welfare but it's a bit of a coincidence. Only problem here is that it seems we can't beat the Government so we start turning on ourselves. Older established drivers now pensioners are no longer welcome in the Industry. It's a bone of contention for drivers to see these men with their pension sitting on the rank next to them. Then its guys leasing plates, Obviously it's not good that they Don't produce a tax clearance every year, but other than that, What other industry are you prevented from leasing or renting? None .. Then its double jobbers, as much as we dislike them no Government is ever going to stop them. We have a Government that gives back to work schemes to the drivers you compete with and instead of raising hell with them were after retired lads with a pension. You have welfare subsidizing half the taxi industry legitimately and no body seems to want to fight them. It's Dog eat Dog now with figures being pointed and the wrong conclusions came to. Evan in relation to the number of Unions now. How easy it's becoming for Government . Davide and conquer........
Re: Waterford radio news of Dublin Taxi protest...
October 8, 2009 by daithii4u
Pictures and Video supplied by Noel Mclarance Waterford Taxi Association
African drivers at 'crisis point'
October 7, 2009 by daithii4u
African taxi drivers are struggling to make a living because they are being left on the ranks for hours as people skip the queue, it has been claimed. Ganiu Badru said the situation has reached crisis point and despite the discussions which took place last week, very little has changed.'The situation is still the same,,' said Ganiu. 'We are left to stay on the rank for two or three hours at a time because people are jumping the queue to the back. We don't want this kind of thing to happen, sometimes the African drivers spend most of the day on the rank because people will go as far back as taxi number eleven.
'We have the same qualifications, the same licence, so I don't know
why people are skipping the queue, it is just about colour. If they are
not being racist why are they jumping the queue? If you look at the
cars being passed over it is all African drivers.'He said African drivers also faced regular verbal abuse from members of the public.'One man said to my friend: 'I hate you, the only reason I picked
you is because you are the only one on the rank. They are always using
the 'f' word, that kind of thing. It's not right.'Ganiu said he was not holding out much hope of finding a simple
resolution to the problem but said a queueing system on the rank would
help. 'That is what is needed,' he commented.
Taxi drivers end Dublin protest
October 2, 2009 by daithii4u
The dispute by members of the Irish Taxi Council has ended following talks with officials from the Department of Transport.The meeting was described as 'positive', and another will take place before 15 October.Irish Taxi Council president Frank Byrne told drivers those talks
will cover measures such as ensuring that drivers who already have a
full-time job declare this when applying for a licence.
They had originally said they would continue to protest until they
were granted a meeting with Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey. Earlier, a spokesperson for the Department of Transport said the
Taxi Regulator is compiling a report with recommendations on the next
steps for the industry. The move follows a recent public consultation.
DUBLIN TAXI PROTEST OCTOBER 2009
October 2, 2009 by daithii4u
RTE NEWS VIDEO
LISTES TO MORNING IRELAND
MORNING IRELAND
NEWS AT ONE
CLICK ON ABOVE LINKS TO VIEW AND LISTEN
The most sucessful taxi protest ever.
October 2, 2009 by daithii4u
Do you hear Mr kearnes on Joe Duffy saying he was against the protest. He wanted to know the legality of it and who the leaders were. What a traitor. Funny listening to the show and the drivers who said they knew nothing about the protest and drove into it by accident and were verbally abused. Funny how drivers from the far ends of the country could hear about and attend it and Dublin Taxi drivers claim to have never heard of it.
Dept officials meet protesting taxi drivers
October 2, 2009 by daithii4u
Officials from the Department of Transport are holding a meeting with protesting taxi drivers in Dublin.100 drivers have been demonstrating since yesterday morning over deteriorating working conditions in the industry.They had originally said they would continue to protest in Dublin's
O Connell St until they were granted a meeting with Minister for
Transport Noel Dempsey.
Earlier, a spokesperson for the Department of Transport said the
Taxi Regulator is compiling a report with recommendations on the next
steps for the industry. The move follows a recent public consultation.Traffic in the area is being affected badly. Right lanes are fully blocked both northbound and southbound on O'Connell St; one lane remains open in both directions.
A sucessful protest, well done.
October 2, 2009 by daithii4u
Following today's successful protest we are urging you to give support the escalation of the protest.
Gresham rank 7am 2nd OCT . Thanks for your support Taxi drivers for change........
Dublin Taxi protest
October 1, 2009 by daithii4u
A spokesperson for the Irish Taxi Council says taxi drivers have travelled from Waterford, Galway and other areas to take part in today's protest.Earlier, taxis caused widespread disruption when they closed all lanes, including the bus lanes, on O'Connell Street. A spokesperson for the Department of Transport said that the taxi regulator is compiling a report with recommendations on the next steps for the industry.
The move follows a recent public consultation on the industry.The Commission for Taxi Regulation released a statement this
afternoon. It said that the taxi market is now liberalised and
therefore there are no quantitative controls on the number of
operators. It added that the Commission was committed to reform,
including raising the overall standards required to get a taxi licence. The Commission was also critical of the protestors for
inconveniencing other road users and called for protesting drivers to
respect the rights of taxi drivers who continued to work during the
protest.
