Taxi drivers could be waiting for post-deregulation payments

TAXI drivers do not expect to get post-deregulation hardship payments in the next few weeks.

Payments totalling €15m are to be made. More than 2,000 applications have been received.

An average of around €7,500 is to be paid out, an amount branded as derisory by taxi drivers’ representatives who claim some in the industry lost many times that amount following deregulation in late 2000.