A meeting of the executives of the three main taxi drivers' unions to decide on whether to boycott the Ryder Cup as part of their continuing dispute with the Taxi Regulator has been adjourned until Thursday.
Tommy Gorman of the National Taxi Drivers Union said they decided to adjourn the meeting while they wait for the Taxi Regulator to respond to an invitation to attend a mass meeting of taxi drivers to discuss changes to fares.
Members of the National Taxi Drivers' Union, SIPTU and the Irish Taxi Drivers' Federation voted last Wednesday to boycott the golf tournament.
Tommy Gorman of the NTDU said that if drivers got a guarantee that negotiations on a fare increase would begin soon its members could come to some form of compromise.
However, a spokesperson for the Taxi Regulator said the new fare, which is due to be introduced on 25 September, will not be renegotiated as it has already been signed into law.
The spokesperson said that the Commission for Taxi Regulation would review the new national maximum taxi fare on an ongoing basis with a full review scheduled to take place no later than 2008.
At Wednesday's meeting, drivers also agreed to refuse to pay a €500 annual fee to the Dublin Airport Authority for operating at the airport.
It follows two one-day work stoppages in the last month in protest over the fee.
