Taxi families tell EU of plight after deregulation

THE overnight deregulation of taxi licences has resulted in suicides, heart attacks, severe hardship and families in danger of losing their homes, the European Parliament Petitions Committee heard yesterday.

FAIR, the group representing families of the affected taxi drivers, has taken their case to Brussels in the hope of forcing the Irish Government to compensate them for their losses.

They told the committee yesterday that at least two taxi drivers a week have to have their mortgages rescheduled because of the dramatic drop in incomes as a result of the trebling of taxi numbers in Dublin.