❓ The Minister outlines initiatives to increase taxi availability during peak periods, including increasing peak period taxi plates, incentives for new drivers (lease-free period, licence cost assistance), and targeted recruitment.
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TAXIS - AVAILABILITY
Can the minister advise the house what the Carpenter government is doing to increase the number of taxis on our roads late at night? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
Can the minister advise the house what the Carpenter government is doing to increase the number of taxis on our roads late at night? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
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I thank the member for the question. With daylight saving, there will no doubt be even more partying and revelry, and there will be a need for even more taxis at night. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know there is a mob of Rechabites on the other side; that is why they do not support daylight saving. They are incapable of having fun. It is a sour-faced mob on the other side. We do not pretend to be something that we are not. We do not, like the mentor for Cottesloe, sit in the bar drinking red wine and then come into this chamber complaining about everyone else having a good time. Since its election, the government has doubled the number of vehicles with peak period taxi plates on our roads - from 90 to 187. However, we recognise that we need to do more. With the climate of extraordinary economic growth, we have difficulty attracting drivers from our traditional markets. Accordingly, the government has decided to encourage new people into the industry - perhaps people like members opposite looking for a bit of part-time work on the side, or journalists from The West Australian who are always complaining about what everyone else is being paid, so I can only presume that they are not terribly well paid themselves. We will encourage them to take on a peak-period taxi plate. All they need is a reasonably good vehicle less than five years old; it could be a sedan or a people mover. We will then provide a plate for this peak period operation. To encourage this, we are offering a lease-free period of three months, during which there will be no payment whatsoever. If a person does not have a taxi licence, we are prepared to go that extra step and pay half the cost of obtaining a licence. We are advertising to try to get a new group of people into those peak period operations. I hope that everyone who knows people who could do with a little extra on the side encourages them to come forward. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I can see members opposite will all be queuing up. The Adonis from Avon will be the first to apply! We are very keen to get more people operating taxis during peak periods. It is a good job. There is guaranteed business; a driver will not have an empty dance card for the entire night. There is good money to be made from peak-period taxis. Let us go for it.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question. With daylight saving, there will no doubt be even more partying and revelry, and there will be a need for even more taxis at night. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know there is a mob of Rechabites on the other side; that is why they do not support daylight saving. They are incapable of having fun. It is a sour-faced mob on the other side. We do not pretend to be something that we are not. We do not, like the mentor for Cottesloe, sit in the bar drinking red wine and then come into this chamber complaining about everyone else having a good time. Since its election, the government has doubled the number of vehicles with peak period taxi plates on our roads - from 90 to 187. However, we recognise that we need to do more. With the climate of extraordinary economic growth, we have difficulty attracting drivers from our traditional markets. Accordingly, the government has decided to encourage new people into the industry - perhaps people like members opposite looking for a bit of part-time work on the side, or journalists from The West Australian who are always complaining about what everyone else is being paid, so I can only presume that they are not terribly well paid themselves. We will encourage them to take on a peak-period taxi plate. All they need is a reasonably good vehicle less than five years old; it could be a sedan or a people mover. We will then provide a plate for this peak period operation. To encourage this, we are offering a lease-free period of three months, during which there will be no payment whatsoever. If a person does not have a taxi licence, we are prepared to go that extra step and pay half the cost of obtaining a licence. We are advertising to try to get a new group of people into those peak period operations. I hope that everyone who knows people who could do with a little extra on the side encourages them to come forward. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I can see members opposite will all be queuing up. The Adonis from Avon will be the first to apply! We are very keen to get more people operating taxis during peak periods. It is a good job. There is guaranteed business; a driver will not have an empty dance card for the entire night. There is good money to be made from peak-period taxis. Let us go for it.
I thank the member for the question. With daylight saving, there will no doubt be even more partying and revelry, and there will be a need for even more taxis at night. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know there is a mob of Rechabites on the other side; that is why they do not support daylight saving. They are incapable of having fun. It is a sour-faced mob on the other side. We do not pretend to be something that we are not. We do not, like the mentor for Cottesloe, sit in the bar drinking red wine and then come into this chamber complaining about everyone else having a good time. Since its election, the government has doubled the number of vehicles with peak period taxi plates on our roads - from 90 to 187. However, we recognise that we need to do more. With the climate of extraordinary economic growth, we have difficulty attracting drivers from our traditional markets. Accordingly, the government has decided to encourage new people into the industry - perhaps people like members opposite looking for a bit of part-time work on the side, or journalists from The West Australian who are always complaining about what everyone else is being paid, so I can only presume that they are not terribly well paid themselves. We will encourage them to take on a peak-period taxi plate. All they need is a reasonably good vehicle less than five years old; it could be a sedan or a people mover. We will then provide a plate for this peak period operation. To encourage this, we are offering a lease-free period of three months, during which there will be no payment whatsoever. If a person does not have a taxi licence, we are prepared to go that extra step and pay half the cost of obtaining a licence. We are advertising to try to get a new group of people into those peak period operations. I hope that everyone who knows people who could do with a little extra on the side encourages them to come forward. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I can see members opposite will all be queuing up. The Adonis from Avon will be the first to apply! We are very keen to get more people operating taxis during peak periods. It is a good job. There is guaranteed business; a driver will not have an empty dance card for the entire night. There is good money to be made from peak-period taxis. Let us go for it.
Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know there is a mob of Rechabites on the other side; that is why they do not support daylight saving. They are incapable of having fun. It is a sour-faced mob on the other side. We do not pretend to be something that we are not. We do not, like the mentor for Cottesloe, sit in the bar drinking red wine and then come into this chamber complaining about everyone else having a good time. Since its election, the government has doubled the number of vehicles with peak period taxi plates on our roads - from 90 to 187. However, we recognise that we need to do more. With the climate of extraordinary economic growth, we have difficulty attracting drivers from our traditional markets. Accordingly, the government has decided to encourage new people into the industry - perhaps people like members opposite looking for a bit of part-time work on the side, or journalists from The West Australian who are always complaining about what everyone else is being paid, so I can only presume that they are not terribly well paid themselves. We will encourage them to take on a peak-period taxi plate. All they need is a reasonably good vehicle less than five years old; it could be a sedan or a people mover. We will then provide a plate for this peak period operation. To encourage this, we are offering a lease-free period of three months, during which there will be no payment whatsoever. If a person does not have a taxi licence, we are prepared to go that extra step and pay half the cost of obtaining a licence. We are advertising to try to get a new group of people into those peak period operations. I hope that everyone who knows people who could do with a little extra on the side encourages them to come forward. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I can see members opposite will all be queuing up. The Adonis from Avon will be the first to apply! We are very keen to get more people operating taxis during peak periods. It is a good job. There is guaranteed business; a driver will not have an empty dance card for the entire night. There is good money to be made from peak-period taxis. Let us go for it.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know there is a mob of Rechabites on the other side; that is why they do not support daylight saving. They are incapable of having fun. It is a sour-faced mob on the other side. We do not pretend to be something that we are not. We do not, like the mentor for Cottesloe, sit in the bar drinking red wine and then come into this chamber complaining about everyone else having a good time. Since its election, the government has doubled the number of vehicles with peak period taxi plates on our roads - from 90 to 187. However, we recognise that we need to do more. With the climate of extraordinary economic growth, we have difficulty attracting drivers from our traditional markets. Accordingly, the government has decided to encourage new people into the industry - perhaps people like members opposite looking for a bit of part-time work on the side, or journalists from The West Australian who are always complaining about what everyone else is being paid, so I can only presume that they are not terribly well paid themselves. We will encourage them to take on a peak-period taxi plate. All they need is a reasonably good vehicle less than five years old; it could be a sedan or a people mover. We will then provide a plate for this peak period operation. To encourage this, we are offering a lease-free period of three months, during which there will be no payment whatsoever. If a person does not have a taxi licence, we are prepared to go that extra step and pay half the cost of obtaining a licence. We are advertising to try to get a new group of people into those peak period operations. I hope that everyone who knows people who could do with a little extra on the side encourages them to come forward. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I can see members opposite will all be queuing up. The Adonis from Avon will be the first to apply! We are very keen to get more people operating taxis during peak periods. It is a good job. There is guaranteed business; a driver will not have an empty dance card for the entire night. There is good money to be made from peak-period taxis. Let us go for it.
Since its election, the government has doubled the number of vehicles with peak period taxi plates on our roads - from 90 to 187. However, we recognise that we need to do more. With the climate of extraordinary economic growth, we have difficulty attracting drivers from our traditional markets. Accordingly, the government has decided to encourage new people into the industry - perhaps people like members opposite looking for a bit of part-time work on the side, or journalists from The West Australian who are always complaining about what everyone else is being paid, so I can only presume that they are not terribly well paid themselves. We will encourage them to take on a peak-period taxi plate. All they need is a reasonably good vehicle less than five years old; it could be a sedan or a people mover. We will then provide a plate for this peak period operation. To encourage this, we are offering a lease-free period of three months, during which there will be no payment whatsoever. If a person does not have a taxi licence, we are prepared to go that extra step and pay half the cost of obtaining a licence. We are advertising to try to get a new group of people into those peak period operations. I hope that everyone who knows people who could do with a little extra on the side encourages them to come forward. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I can see members opposite will all be queuing up. The Adonis from Avon will be the first to apply! We are very keen to get more people operating taxis during peak periods. It is a good job. There is guaranteed business; a driver will not have an empty dance card for the entire night. There is good money to be made from peak-period taxis. Let us go for it.
Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I can see members opposite will all be queuing up. The Adonis from Avon will be the first to apply! We are very keen to get more people operating taxis during peak periods. It is a good job. There is guaranteed business; a driver will not have an empty dance card for the entire night. There is good money to be made from peak-period taxis. Let us go for it.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I can see members opposite will all be queuing up. The Adonis from Avon will be the first to apply! We are very keen to get more people operating taxis during peak periods. It is a good job. There is guaranteed business; a driver will not have an empty dance card for the entire night. There is good money to be made from peak-period taxis. Let us go for it.
We are very keen to get more people operating taxis during peak periods. It is a good job. There is guaranteed business; a driver will not have an empty dance card for the entire night. There is good money to be made from peak-period taxis. Let us go for it.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question. With daylight saving, there will no doubt be even more partying and revelry, and there will be a need for even more taxis at night. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know there is a mob of Rechabites on the other side; that is why they do not support daylight saving. They are incapable of having fun. It is a sour-faced mob on the other side. We do not pretend to be something that we are not. We do not, like the mentor for Cottesloe, sit in the bar drinking red wine and then come into this chamber complaining about everyone else having a good time. Since its election, the government has doubled the number of vehicles with peak period taxi plates on our roads - from 90 to 187. However, we recognise that we need to do more. With the climate of extraordinary economic growth, we have difficulty attracting drivers from our traditional markets. Accordingly, the government has decided to encourage new people into the industry - perhaps people like members opposite looking for a bit of part-time work on the side, or journalists from The West Australian who are always complaining about what everyone else is being paid, so I can only presume that they are not terribly well paid themselves. We will encourage them to take on a peak-period taxi plate. All they need is a reasonably good vehicle less than five years old; it could be a sedan or a people mover. We will then provide a plate for this peak period operation. To encourage this, we are offering a lease-free period of three months, during which there will be no payment whatsoever. If a person does not have a taxi licence, we are prepared to go that extra step and pay half the cost of obtaining a licence. We are advertising to try to get a new group of people into those peak period operations. I hope that everyone who knows people who could do with a little extra on the side encourages them to come forward. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I can see members opposite will all be queuing up. The Adonis from Avon will be the first to apply! We are very keen to get more people operating taxis during peak periods. It is a good job. There is guaranteed business; a driver will not have an empty dance card for the entire night. There is good money to be made from peak-period taxis. Let us go for it.
I thank the member for the question. With daylight saving, there will no doubt be even more partying and revelry, and there will be a need for even more taxis at night. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know there is a mob of Rechabites on the other side; that is why they do not support daylight saving. They are incapable of having fun. It is a sour-faced mob on the other side. We do not pretend to be something that we are not. We do not, like the mentor for Cottesloe, sit in the bar drinking red wine and then come into this chamber complaining about everyone else having a good time. Since its election, the government has doubled the number of vehicles with peak period taxi plates on our roads - from 90 to 187. However, we recognise that we need to do more. With the climate of extraordinary economic growth, we have difficulty attracting drivers from our traditional markets. Accordingly, the government has decided to encourage new people into the industry - perhaps people like members opposite looking for a bit of part-time work on the side, or journalists from The West Australian who are always complaining about what everyone else is being paid, so I can only presume that they are not terribly well paid themselves. We will encourage them to take on a peak-period taxi plate. All they need is a reasonably good vehicle less than five years old; it could be a sedan or a people mover. We will then provide a plate for this peak period operation. To encourage this, we are offering a lease-free period of three months, during which there will be no payment whatsoever. If a person does not have a taxi licence, we are prepared to go that extra step and pay half the cost of obtaining a licence. We are advertising to try to get a new group of people into those peak period operations. I hope that everyone who knows people who could do with a little extra on the side encourages them to come forward. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I can see members opposite will all be queuing up. The Adonis from Avon will be the first to apply! We are very keen to get more people operating taxis during peak periods. It is a good job. There is guaranteed business; a driver will not have an empty dance card for the entire night. There is good money to be made from peak-period taxis. Let us go for it.
Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know there is a mob of Rechabites on the other side; that is why they do not support daylight saving. They are incapable of having fun. It is a sour-faced mob on the other side. We do not pretend to be something that we are not. We do not, like the mentor for Cottesloe, sit in the bar drinking red wine and then come into this chamber complaining about everyone else having a good time. Since its election, the government has doubled the number of vehicles with peak period taxi plates on our roads - from 90 to 187. However, we recognise that we need to do more. With the climate of extraordinary economic growth, we have difficulty attracting drivers from our traditional markets. Accordingly, the government has decided to encourage new people into the industry - perhaps people like members opposite looking for a bit of part-time work on the side, or journalists from The West Australian who are always complaining about what everyone else is being paid, so I can only presume that they are not terribly well paid themselves. We will encourage them to take on a peak-period taxi plate. All they need is a reasonably good vehicle less than five years old; it could be a sedan or a people mover. We will then provide a plate for this peak period operation. To encourage this, we are offering a lease-free period of three months, during which there will be no payment whatsoever. If a person does not have a taxi licence, we are prepared to go that extra step and pay half the cost of obtaining a licence. We are advertising to try to get a new group of people into those peak period operations. I hope that everyone who knows people who could do with a little extra on the side encourages them to come forward. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I can see members opposite will all be queuing up. The Adonis from Avon will be the first to apply! We are very keen to get more people operating taxis during peak periods. It is a good job. There is guaranteed business; a driver will not have an empty dance card for the entire night. There is good money to be made from peak-period taxis. Let us go for it.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I know there is a mob of Rechabites on the other side; that is why they do not support daylight saving. They are incapable of having fun. It is a sour-faced mob on the other side. We do not pretend to be something that we are not. We do not, like the mentor for Cottesloe, sit in the bar drinking red wine and then come into this chamber complaining about everyone else having a good time. Since its election, the government has doubled the number of vehicles with peak period taxi plates on our roads - from 90 to 187. However, we recognise that we need to do more. With the climate of extraordinary economic growth, we have difficulty attracting drivers from our traditional markets. Accordingly, the government has decided to encourage new people into the industry - perhaps people like members opposite looking for a bit of part-time work on the side, or journalists from The West Australian who are always complaining about what everyone else is being paid, so I can only presume that they are not terribly well paid themselves. We will encourage them to take on a peak-period taxi plate. All they need is a reasonably good vehicle less than five years old; it could be a sedan or a people mover. We will then provide a plate for this peak period operation. To encourage this, we are offering a lease-free period of three months, during which there will be no payment whatsoever. If a person does not have a taxi licence, we are prepared to go that extra step and pay half the cost of obtaining a licence. We are advertising to try to get a new group of people into those peak period operations. I hope that everyone who knows people who could do with a little extra on the side encourages them to come forward. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I can see members opposite will all be queuing up. The Adonis from Avon will be the first to apply! We are very keen to get more people operating taxis during peak periods. It is a good job. There is guaranteed business; a driver will not have an empty dance card for the entire night. There is good money to be made from peak-period taxis. Let us go for it.
Since its election, the government has doubled the number of vehicles with peak period taxi plates on our roads - from 90 to 187. However, we recognise that we need to do more. With the climate of extraordinary economic growth, we have difficulty attracting drivers from our traditional markets. Accordingly, the government has decided to encourage new people into the industry - perhaps people like members opposite looking for a bit of part-time work on the side, or journalists from The West Australian who are always complaining about what everyone else is being paid, so I can only presume that they are not terribly well paid themselves. We will encourage them to take on a peak-period taxi plate. All they need is a reasonably good vehicle less than five years old; it could be a sedan or a people mover. We will then provide a plate for this peak period operation. To encourage this, we are offering a lease-free period of three months, during which there will be no payment whatsoever. If a person does not have a taxi licence, we are prepared to go that extra step and pay half the cost of obtaining a licence. We are advertising to try to get a new group of people into those peak period operations. I hope that everyone who knows people who could do with a little extra on the side encourages them to come forward. Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I can see members opposite will all be queuing up. The Adonis from Avon will be the first to apply! We are very keen to get more people operating taxis during peak periods. It is a good job. There is guaranteed business; a driver will not have an empty dance card for the entire night. There is good money to be made from peak-period taxis. Let us go for it.
Several members interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I can see members opposite will all be queuing up. The Adonis from Avon will be the first to apply! We are very keen to get more people operating taxis during peak periods. It is a good job. There is guaranteed business; a driver will not have an empty dance card for the entire night. There is good money to be made from peak-period taxis. Let us go for it.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I can see members opposite will all be queuing up. The Adonis from Avon will be the first to apply! We are very keen to get more people operating taxis during peak periods. It is a good job. There is guaranteed business; a driver will not have an empty dance card for the entire night. There is good money to be made from peak-period taxis. Let us go for it.
We are very keen to get more people operating taxis during peak periods. It is a good job. There is guaranteed business; a driver will not have an empty dance card for the entire night. There is good money to be made from peak-period taxis. Let us go for it.
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