Only thing I cant understand is,why they are only looking for a moratorium on new licence issues till things return to normality , ,they should be looking for a moratorium for a lot longer then that,the gact is THERE ARE STILL FAR TO MANY TAXIS
It's a flawed system I think.
There may be an over- supply of taxis on a national level, but if you drill down to a more regional outlook, there are probably areas in short supply while other areas have too many. To just go and chop a load of cars out of the national fleet doesn't correctly answer the question.
Maybe a moratorium on issuing new *driver* licences for certain counties that have too many drivers would be a more balanced approach.
So if Dublin for example has 12000 cars which is 3000 too many, just don't allow any more new applications for driver licences, and don't allow any existing drivers to sit the area knowledge test for Dublin.
Keep the numbers regularly under review until, through a natural decline in drivers from retirement or leaving the industry, a "critical mass" is reached (9000), then you are at the point where you can release new licences as required. Same for every area.
If a driver retires, instead of letting his vehicle licence die, allow it to be sold on or transferred for use in only a county that is under supplied at that time.
This one-fits-all approach doesn't seem like best practice to me, though maybe it's my thinking that is flawed!
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