Galway Gardai to look into claims of taxi insurance fraud

Galway Bay fm newsroom – Gardaí say they will look into claims that some taxi drivers in Galway could be using private insurance policies instead of commercial policies. Councillor Frank Fahy, a taxi driver himself, told a meeting of the City Joint Policing Committee this week that he knows of cases where a taxi driver has taken out a commercial insurance policy. He claims that after a month, they cancel the policy and take out a cheaper private policy, but still keep the commercial policy disc on the windscreen. Councillor Fahy says Garda equipment can only tell if a vehicle is insured, but not what kind of policy it has.