Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)

The Minister is right that the car hire model that has been used to date is defunct by now. A subsidy could only be seen in the context of a transition period and that transition might be quicker if there was no subsidy. Would the Minister examine the possibility of allowing cars in from the North and Britain for hire because that would give some increase in capacity while the industry is in transition?

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