Being from a smallish town there is a good chance that when I get into a Taxi I KNOW the taxi driver. I have never had reason to be afraid of a taxi cab or driver and even in the city have never had a problem. If taxi companies are bribing the NCT crowd then shouldn’t the NCT also be investigated? One more point, what about all the honest Taxi drivers who are attacked by drunks and or criminals and robbed of their takings and in a few cases, their lives. Let the regulator prosecute the wrong doers but then again…How many government officials are actually DOING their jobs?

i feel sorry for honest taxi drivers who are given a bad name because of those assholes on the telly last night.i would say this is only the tip of the iceberg.lets just wait and see will anything be done or can we already answer that one ? its too easy now to be a taxi driver and half them dont even know where they are going.i think we should have something like they have in london where you must sit an exam and are asked questions on the quickest way from A to B, that should help somewhat towards having decent,hard working drivers who take pride in their job not being tarred like the others who have other jobs or are only in it to make a fast buck

I think the taxi regulator should step down as she looks more like the bank regulator who did not know what was going on in the banks

What we need is a taxi regulator, then everything would be ok because nobody ever heard of a regulator failing to regulate… oh wait….

Well not now :O

I have come across some seriously dodgy ones all right……my faith in the driversa has been seriously eroded, not by the programme more by my observations in recent months expecially.

I have not had any problems of note taking taxis in recent years. I would like to avoid bangers but can one reject an old banger in a queue of taxis?

I only use taxis from well know taxi companies, and I have never had a problem.

I do believe the regulator is not doing her job, in any other situation a person would be fired. This is why we are in the situation we are in over paid people who have no idea what they are doing distroying other peoples livelyhood.

Get rid of this woman and put in someone who know the industry.

Nothing new in the programe that we in the trade didn’t know already.
There are plenty more anomalies and scams out there in the certification of taxies but they are not as exciting .
Taxi drivers have been informing the regulator , the gardai, RSA and the minister of transport but nobody listening -all trying to justify their jobs.
On any given night you can be getting a lift in a car with a non national who probably shouldnt be working but can because of a loophole in the law,who has no training and area knowledge ,not insured,in a defective car and will probably rip you off.
Very reassuring isn’t it
OH and before anybody starts parroting on about about me sounding racist-did you see any Irish or EU drivers featured-No because we are policed rigidly and cant put a foot wrong or we are prosecuted..
We are the easy targets at all times because we are the stupid irish who try to obey the law.
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Last time I was in a taxi in Dublin, the driver side swiped a flat bed truck carrying sheets of glass in metal frames. The whole lot came crashing down on top of the taxi with me trapped inside. When I finally got out the driver still wanted his fee!
I will never get into a taxi again!

Gotta say I’ve been in both Irish and non-irish taxis that were both knackered and well maintained. Didn’t seem skewed one way or the other. I just started selecting better looking cars whenever possible.

The big issue from the show was the apparent lack of on street enforcement. It can’t be too surprising that there are crooks out there ….so where is the on street enforcement?

IS THERE ANY IRISHMEN DRIVING TAXI ANYMORE.THEY SEEM TO BE ALL NON NATIONALS,I FIND IT HARD TO GET INTO A TAXI WITH SOMEONE I DO NOT KNOW.EVERY PASSENGER SHOULD BE GIVEN A RECEIPT,IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG OR YOU LOSE YOUR WALLET OR PURSE YOU CAN TRACE THE TAXI , IT LOOKS TO ME LIKE IT IS ALL CASH IN HAND .WHEN THERE IS NO ACCOUNTABILITY THERE IS ALWAY;S DANGER.

Gerry, if you want a receipt, ask for one, I always get a receipt, purely for the reasons u outlined.

I’m more concerned about who I’m getting into the car with than I am about the car itself… Besides, I know nothing about cars and can’t tell from the outside whether it’s NCT approved or not, and if not, they’re hardly gonna tell the truth if you ask! If I need a taxi, there’s nothing else I can do about it. I don’t drive.

Only ever take a taxt from my very reliable ABC Taxi’s who always respond quickly to a call out – at least I know who I’m gettimng into a car with

I’ve always felt safe in taxis. But I always use Satellite Taxis, I’d never get into a cab at random.

I for one would never trust a Belfast taxi driver since one kicked me and my boyfriend out in the early hours going home from the Kremlin Club. The driver had the temerity to object to us kissing in the back. Good God it’s 2011 not 1909.

Of course I feel safe in any taxi. One in seven has a criminal conviction, so what. If they are driving a taxi and not in jail then they have served their time. A conviction is not a life time sentence. And so what if they don’t all pass the NCT, its only a money making exercise for the government. A pedestrian is far more likely to be hit and killed by a dodgy car than a passenger.

This is just another example of the national broadcaster trying to scare the public.

I would not feel safe in any taxi so I dont use them.