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Sunday October 08, 2006 17:27 by John Mcdermott - removefiannafail
Bertie may have more problems.! The High Court will be the battleground for the coming showdown between disgruntled taxi drivers and Fianna Fail.It will be a long and costly battle.It may cost 500 million euros or more.. The illustrious legal firm of McMahon O'brien Downes,36 Pembroke Road Ballsbridge represented many claimants in the "deaf soldiers" class action against the state,almost a decade ago,which resulted in the taxpayers of the nation presenting 300 million Euros to a few thousand members of the defence forces.This have are in the final stages of preparing a similiar class action/law suit against the Minister for the Environment and Local |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2Can we have a bit of accuracy here please? Neither the PDs, nor any other government had any part the breaking the corrupt old taxi licensing scheme. What happened was the Bobby Molloy proposed a change that would tie in the corrupt scheme for years.
He offered a free second taxi licence to every taxi-plate owner – and none to their drivers, or to hackney drivers. The hackney drivers challenged the legislation in the courts and won.
The court held that regulation for the good of the customer was legal and constitutional, but regulation to prevent new entrants to a market just to enrich the existing operators was unconstitutional.
Every person is entitled to carry on whatever lawful business they are qualified for, they said. So if taxi-plate owners were getting a new taxi plate, taxi and hackney drivers were entitled to do so too, and so was everyone else.
The disgruntled taxi-plate owners are taking an interesting tack – they can’t appeal the court ruling, so they are arguing, it seems, that it was the situation before that caused the damage.
I wonder how the court will view evidence from the tribunals that politicians were being bribed by Frank Dunlop to support the taxi-plate owners and vote in against any change in regulation.
Hopefully John Usher boss of the Irish Taxi Federation ,will still be availible to give a full and frank disclosure of his dealings with disgraced T.D. Ivor Callely,as this I think,rather than Frank Dunlop, is the kernel of the whole issue.