Michelle Mulherin (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 84 of 6 March 2013, if he will clarify that the Revenue Commissioners did in fact issue an intoxicating liquor licence on foot of a draft court order only without sight of the final signed court order; the way the Revenue Commissioners came to issue a liquor licence on the basis of a draft document; if the investigation of this illegality was undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17751/13]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that the procedure following the grant of a Licence by Court Order is for the Licensee to obtain a Court Certificate from the Court Office. This Court Certificate must be submitted to the Revenue Commissioners, within 12 months of the date on which it was issued. The Revenue Commissioners will then issue the Licence, subject to tax clearance being in place. They confirm that a Licence issued in this case on the 24th May 2006 on the basis of a Court Order and not a Court Certificate as is required. The Licence in question lapsed on the 1st October 2007 and has not been renewed to date.

The issue of the Licence in circumstances where a Court Certificate is not present is incorrect and erroneous and should not have occurred. Having examined the matter, they are of the view that this was a genuine procedural error and was a one off event. It should be noted that this error was to the benefit of the applicant and not the Revenue Commissioners.