Taxi services suspended at Dublin Airport
Taxi drivers at Dublin Airport have suspended services in a dispute over spaces with the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA).
Drivers who hold permits to pick up passengers have stopped operating this afternoon, claiming that part of the taxi rank they use has been withdrawn.
The DAA said that it is currently amending a temporary overflow area for the taxis which it says will have the same number of spaces as in 2010, despite a fall of more than 300 in the number of permit holders.
"Dublin Airport informed us two weeks ago that they wanted to take some of these … spaces away, and we were looking for an alternative location when they sent the bulldozers in, so it's been a little disappointing the way it was done," said John Usher, president of the Irish Taxi Drivers Federation.
"And of course the men who pay €400 a year for spaces out here find themselves with [a lack of] sufficient spaces, so they reacted by stopping work."
