Just under €268,000 was spent on taxi fares for staff and guests in Ireland, as well as on trips overseas, in the first half of this year.

Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan said taxi costs had been reduced significantly since last year

Dermot Devlin said it is alarming that just 6 per cent of taxis in Northern Ireland are wheelchair accessible.

Uber said the increase to taxi fares will disproportionately affect workers in the hospitality, entertainment, and nightlife sectors.

Taylor Swift, the annual Pride Parade and the All-Ireland Senior Football quarter-finals are just some of the events taking place in Dublin this weekend

Online posts by such groups, which urge pressure to be applied to both individual workers and companies, have risen sharply in recent weeks, but one travel company has been the victim of such posts for more than a year.

A report recently commissioned by Bolt revealed that in Dublin nearly half (43 per cent) of requested trips by customers can go unfulfilled at peak times.

Services like Uber should be allowed to operate in Ireland to address transport issues in rural Ireland, according to a Fine Gael Senator