LAH - Local Area Hackney licence, NTA update.

[Firewall]

Let's see how this pans out.

[John m]

Free Now and UBER will sort that out .Like I TOLD ANYBODY NTA said they wanted a Licenced service just ammend the qualifications for Licencing .

[watty]

It sure looks like it.  They're hiding something because they just published the (legally dense) legislation with no simple explanation of the new rules.

The bit I think I understood was that you can have 1 main licence and then 4 extra licenced lads driving a LAH.  You could have a gang of lads chip in for a car & a licence maybe.  Or Uber could stick in a car somewhere and have 5 people drive it around the clock for pocket money?

[silverbullet]

Let's see how this pans out.

Hacks with cosies.

[taxi1990]

when you think about it, 1 lad driving a LAH isn't very efficient, what if he is away? or not bothered about working some nights?

They have to try something because there are lots of towns and villages with no taxis only illegal taxis, if even that.

Maybe Irish people just need to lay of the drink and have a night out without skulling 15 pints and a bag of coke. Then they can drive themselves home.

I find it very strange how say a couple cant go out and 1 of them not drink. no worry about taxis then.

[silverbullet]

when you think about it, 1 lad driving a LAH isn't very efficient, what if he is away? or not bothered about working some nights?

They have to try something because there are lots of towns and villages with no taxis only illegal taxis, if even that.

Maybe Irish people just need to lay of the drink and have a night out without skulling 15 pints and a bag of coke. Then they can drive themselves home.

I find it very strange how say a couple cant go out and 1 of them not drink. no worry about taxis then.

Ask Jack or RC, both of whom were cosies, every taxi before de-reg had one or two cosies.

It's mad in Dublin that almost every taxi currently only has one operator.

[Rat Catcher]

Not much call for Cosies since entry liberalisation.... apart from them immigrants... there does be 18 of them working one car, all doing 22 hour shifts. I'm not sure that it'll be much different for LAHs but it's better to have NTA tinkering around the edges of that scheme than taking a proper look at how rideshare platforms operate elsewhere. I think they've issued less than 2 LAH plates per year since the scheme was introduced over a decade ago. If they were serious about tackling rural transport shortages they'd lift the current temporary moratorium on the issue of saloon hackney plates and restrict taxis to EVs under 3YO. That could also bring Cosies back into the equation, I guess.

Anywaysanall, I guess this latest nonsense gives publicans the option to run their own cars with several barmen permitted to drive as might prove necessary/desirable.... subject to the approval of the local parish priest.

[Rat Catcher]

Apt commencement date anyway, I guess.

[silverbullet]

The government could solve this problem with the stroke of a pen by simply relaxing the licencing laws...oh wait, that wouldn't suit the publicans in their top of the range Mercedes, who gift free space in their pubs for local politicians to hold their clinics...PINTS ALL ROUND!!

[Rat Catcher]

The current Minister has ruled out changing the licensing laws to facilitate P2P rideshare. If they stick to that the worst case scenario would be lifting the current temporary moratorium on the issue of saloon hackney plates as far as the duration of our current Govt is concerned.