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No just a massive turnover of drivers with clapped out Car's or new ones being repossessed left right and centre...... oh did I forget family credit

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

I dont know, perhaps they're all on family tax credits and maybe Ireland doesnt have that?

I quite like the thought of the british tax payer subsidising taxi services though

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Be that as it may, but the point being made is that de-limitation increases the risk that drivers kill themselves.

I ask why that particular illness/outcome hasn't affected the 100% de-limited PH trade?

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IDFIMH

And you know that for certain..... because a few years ago I attended the funeral of a private hire driver that killed himself by putting a hose in the car... because he couldn't make a living

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

Dreadful outcome, but why didn't he join the restricted cab trade?

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IDFIMH

it would seem that the Irish benefit system does not subsidise taxi or private hire drivers

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

because the private hire company he was working for wanted the car back because he hadn't paid the rent....... and the mortgage company was repossessing his home..... which his wife didn't know anything about......

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

Glad I didnt mention Birdy

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

If he can't make enough money to survive on when he already has a suitable vehicle for PH how on earth is supposed to join a restricted cab trade. Come to think of it how is he supposed to join a de-restricted cab trade?



I actually believe there is more work for PH drivers than there is for HC drivers. People are more inclined to ring for a car than go out on the street in the hope of flagging a HC down. You also have to make allowances for the fact that HC's cost more than your average PH vehicles. That's not to say that the PH drivers are not feeling the recession because they are, but, I think the HC that is dependent on street work is feeling it more than anybody else in most areas

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Perhaps it is easier for PH drivers to walk away if the trade isn't viable.
Same goes for renting hack drivers who can hand the cab back.

Not an option for someone who had to spend a fortune to get plated, with their home as security.

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Well that's my point.

Where he works and what side of the trade he works matters not.

If there is no work then there is no work.

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IDFIMH

I may be wrong.. but I don't think anybody is saying that it increases the risk of drivers committing suicide ...... what they're saying is that the Irish government had got it completely wrong..... and still has.... dramatically so... where some drivers feel there is no way out.... and that suicide is the only option.... which personally I'll never understand.

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

I would be inclined to agree with in so far as "If there is no work then there is no work", but, there is work. Due to the total hash of de-restriction made by the Irish government the work is too diluted for anybody to make a decent living and some are in no position to change the job they do.

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

How did that work then?

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Grandad,

They say everybody loves a joker.... I bet you would have gone down great at his funeral...

have corrected it just for you.

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!