Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

Section 13 allows the authority to apply conditions to the grant of licences. Subsection (4) has been amended following consideration of issues raised both in this House and in the Dáil. The subsection now provides that the authority shall require the details of a licence to be displayed in the vehicle providing the service, save where the authority deems it not to be appropriate. Senators will remember we had a long discussion on this. A strong view was expressed in this House in particular that licence details should be displayed in a vehicle. I argued at the time this would not be appropriate for once-off events. However, what we have done meets the concerns of the Senators in that it will be the norm or default position for the licence to be displayed in the vehicle. I hope this meets the requirements of the Seanad.