Files reveal American cab-hailing company’s intensive efforts to sway FG ministers and top officials to back rule changes in face of opposition from State’s taxi regulator
Asked about his lobbying work for Uber, Mr Moran said: “I am very happy to have been asked by Uber to play my part to help them try and modernise Ireland’s taxi industry.”
Some in the company saw Mr Kenny as a political leader who mattered, and a potentially influential voice in support of Uber with centre-right EU counterparts. Mr Kenny did not respond to queries from The Irish Times. The files were leaked to The Guardian and provided to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in Washington, a network of media outlets around the globe that includes The Irish Times, the Washington Post, Le Monde and the BBC.
That effort proved unsuccessful. One month after Uber presented the Limerick pilot plan, Department of Transport officials told the company it was unlikely to be accepted. In June 2017 the National Transport Authority, an independent regulator, definitively ruled it out.
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