Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 50: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the efforts he has made to ensure the Olympic torch passes through Ireland in the run up to the London Olympics in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18967/11]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Government has given its full support to the President of the Olympic Council of Ireland in regard to the proposal to have the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay travel to Ireland. The London Organising Committee of the Games has already approved this proposal and we now await the decision of the International Olympic Committee which we understand to be imminent.