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Age Discrimination Bypassing legislation
We reserved a rental vehicle to pick up at Dublin Airport for 15 days. When they saw my wife was 76 years old they pulled out a demand that we provide a Doctor’s letter that she was competent to drive and a letter from her insurer that she did not have an accident in the past 5 years. The EU have a law that outlaws discrimination on age. However, these unworthy operators circumvent the law by asking for these letters when we we had just crossed the Atlantic. How could we comply on a Sunday night? Given notice, we could have assembled the documents in time. They said it was on their website. If it was clearly on the a website we would have observed it. These operators make their own rules and the public should be made aware of it. They are bypassing the legislation by inserting a loop-hole for their own benefit.