Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)

We keep a close eye on the scheme to ensure it does what is intended. The long list of avoidance practices which gave rise to concerns include breaking a long-term hire into a number of shorter term hires, providing different cars of the same type or model, including replacement cars within the short-term fleet and providing vehicles as insurance replacements. A concession originally intended to support the tourism industry was increasingly used to support a range of unrelated business models. I accept the Deputy's point that it is important from my perspective that the measures are simple and do not damage the car hire or tourism industries in any way and I will monitor them closely.

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