Michelle Mulherin (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Finance if he will extend in the forthcoming Finance Bill 2013 the excise rebate scheme for road hauliers announced in Budget 2013 to benefit passenger transport operators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10493/13]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The proposal to introduce an auto-diesel excise duty relief for licensed road hauliers that I announced in the Budget was, initially, confined to licensed and tax compliant hauliers. However having received a number of submissions from, and on behalf of, private coach operators seeking to have this relief extended to them, as the Deputy will now be aware I have extended the relief to the licensed passenger transport sector in the context of the Finance Bill published on 13 February. The maximum amount of the relief will be 7.5 cents per litre and will be price dependant.