Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)

The report indicates the service could be viable on an all-year basis and I hope the efforts to get the service running are successful and it can be shown to be commercially viable. The Port of Cork and the Irish Maritime Development Office have both been in touch with the promoters and are trying to be as helpful as possible. We do not provide any State subsidy for such a route but I hope the proposals will be successful, the ship can be acquired and the service will get up and running again.

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