MONAGHAN TAXI OPERATOR
APPEALS TO MINISTER TO
INTERVENE TO SAVE THE SECTOR

If you can’t get a taxi in Co Monaghan at night, the fault lies not with local transport operators but with the Taxi Regulator. So Monaghan Town businessman Patrick Gilsenan, proprietor of the long-established Call-A-Car taxi and minibus service, told the Northern Standard this week in an interview in which he appealed to local TD and Government Minister Heather Humphreys to intervene in order to have regulatory controls on the sector eased. “I am calling on Minister Humphreys to make urgent representations to the National Transport Authority and the Taxi Regulator to reduce the requirements on new entrants to the sector attempting to acquire a taxi driving licence.

“Something needs to be done in this regard or taxi services will disappear from the streets of smaller Irish towns and rural areas.” Difficulties in obtaining a taxi in the late evening on weekends has become a source of complaint among members of the public and operators of the hospitality sector in all of Co Monaghan’s towns since the night-time economy…