Taxi drivers have announced a six-day protest which will take place in Dublin next week.
In a statement, Taxi Drivers Ireland said that "after four weeks of warnings, protests, and direct appeals, the Government has failed to take any meaningful action to address the crisis engulfing the regulated taxi industry".
The "national shutdown protest" will take place from Monday 8 December to Saturday 13 December.
National spokesperson for Taxi Drivers Ireland Derek O'Keeffe said that as part of the protest, drivers will proceed in a convoy from Mountjoy Square to Merrion Square on 8, 10 and 12 December from 7am until 5pm.
On Tuesday 9 December and Thursday 11 December, there will be a protest by taxi drivers at all holding areas and access locations outside of Dublin Airport grounds from 4.30pm to 7.30pm.
On Saturday 13 December there will be a "rolling convoy" from Dublin Airport into Dublin city centre, entering Dame St, as part of a "slow rolling protest". This will take place from 4pm to 6pm.
Mr O'Keeffe said that the protest also has the support of Taxi Drivers Ireland Cork Branch and Taxi Drivers Ireland Galway Branch.
"We are watching a regulated profession being dismantled in real time," he said.
"This is what happens when working people are left with no voice," he added. "We are not doing this lightly. We are doing it because we are being forced to."
It follows recent calls by taxi drivers for regulations of the industry to be updated - which they claim do not keep pace with the rise of app-based dispatchers.
"The Government has chosen silence instead of responsibility," Mr O'Keeffe claimed.
"We have played by the rules. We have protested peacefully. We have asked to be heard. Nothing has changed. So now the Irish taxi industry is going up a gear."
The organisation is calling for "immediate engagement" from the Government and have apologised to the public for the disruption that will be caused.
"We do not want protests," Mr O'Keeffe said. "We want to work. But we will not quietly accept the destruction of our livelihoods."
