Michelle Mulherin (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Finance when an intoxicating liquor licence will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo pursuant to section 39 of the Intoxicating Liquor Act 2000 who has presented a certificate in accordance with section five of the Licensing (Ireland) Act 1833 to the Revenue Commissioners within the prescribed statutory timeframe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11955/13]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that they may only grant a liquor licence to a person where that person has presented a Court Certificate to them within 12 months of the date on which it was issued. The person in question presented a Court Order dated 5th July 2005 to Revenue in May 2006 instead of a Court Certificate. This Court Order was accepted by Revenue in place of a Court Certificate and a liquor licence dated 24th May 2006 issued with an expiry date of 30th September 2006. The trader did not renew this licence and so it lapsed on the 1st October 2007. Accordingly the original Court Order, which was acted on by Revenue in 2005, is now spent. The Revenue Commissioners now require that the person in question provide them with a Court Certificate before they will be in a position to consider the issue of a current liquor licence to that person.