Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

When I spoke of the survey of the costs, it was comparing capital cities. Differences will be found in price when one compares the west with parts of Scotland. Regarding the subsidies introduced several years ago, in 1992 the average payment was approximately €900 but gave only 1,260 cars extra. Even the whole value of the subsidy scheme is questionable. I am looking forward to receiving the report from the tourism industry and will be happy to engage with it on solutions it believes are applicable.

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