Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 215: To ask the Minister for Transport, further to Parliamentary Question No. 485 of 2 April 2008, if a licence has been issued; if so, the date on which it issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15009/08]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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I can confirm that no licence has issued to the company as referred to in the Deputy's previous Parliamentary Question on the 2nd April, 2008. I refer the Deputy to my reply to that question in which I advised that the consideration of the said application had to be held in abeyance until such time as a prior application from another private operator for services on a similar route had been determined. The prior application has been finalised and the licence has issued. My Department understands from the licence holder that some services have already been introduced.

In the reply to Question No. 485 of 2nd April 2008 I indicated that the applicant referred to in that question had been advised to cease the operation of a road passenger service in respect of which a licence had not been issued under the Road Transport Act 1932, which is an offence under section 7 of that Act. That matter is now the subject of an investigation by the Garda Síochána.