Horse trading

[mercenary for hire]

Yes.

[john m]

According to somebody I know .Ross has been asked to look again at rideshare for rural Ireland in return for support for his drink driving bill .A lot of FG TDs are not in favour and there is concern that if Ross,s bill gets defeated and FG TD s didnt support a Government bill that there will be a vote of no confidence in the government .Ross has big problems with Cranny and Moran from his own party who dont support his bill .Could be fun and games soon Government will be defeated this evening by a FF bill on restoring pensions .

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/publicans-could-drive-drinkers-home-under-new-proposals-from-ross-1.3266207

[john m]

The measures being looked at include making breath tests available to individuals, offering designated drivers free soft drinks and making rural hackney licences more accessible.

[john m]

The Minister has asked the National Transport Authority (NTA) to assess the roll-out of community car services and the level of demand for such a scheme to be developed. Local volunteers would use their own car to help individuals who have difficulty accessing forms of transport but could receive some financial payment.

[john m]

The Minister has asked the National Transport Authority (NTA) to assess the roll-out of community car services = RIDESHARE

[mercenary for hire]

Go and shite.

[Rat Catcher]

.Local volunteers would use their own car to help individuals .

Could the local volunteers be organised by multinational profiteers?

[john m]

.Local volunteers would use their own car to help individuals .

Could the local volunteers be organised by multinational profiteers?

Do you mean might the local volunteer have an app. The other hidden bit in this is change the application for rural hacks if there are a lot of applications and the clear need and no taxi service is removed as a requirement then existing taxi drivers might rent out their licenced taxi and plate up a rural or community car .Rideshare by the back door .

[Rat Catcher]

A lot of the men done that before deregulation, taking on hackney plates and renting out the taxi plates.

[john m]

A lot of the men done that before deregulation, taking on hackney plates and renting out the taxi plates.

 nothing new there you could stick some sort of covert marker on your local car to let people know you will give them a jaunt for cash .

[mercenary for hire]

What's the facination with rideshare Ermy?It doesn't make any sense.Yer like the boy who cried wolf, remember that bollix?If anything ever happens we won't believe you because your looking for something isn't there.Very strange.

[john m]

Rideshare is definitly coming rural ireland is too scattered for a regular transport system if locals are willing to give people a lift for cash then that solves a lot of rural transport issues .

[Vikkiz]

They fucking survived this long in the fucking sticks without a decent transport service they don't need one.

[mercenary for hire]

Ermy ya live in Clondalkin.Why so concerned?

[Rat Catcher]

nothing new there you could stick some sort of covert marker on your local car to let people know you will give them a jaunt for cash .

A lot of the men that drove hackneys before deregulation used overt markers in the form of plastic balls on their aerials, the aerials themselves connected to two way wirelesses that they were not legally entitled to use. I'm not sure that covert markers would work as , by definition, being surreptitious in nature they'd be indistinguishable.