Written answers

Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Department of Finance

Fuel Trader's Licence

Photo of Michelle MulherinMichelle Mulherin (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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257. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of filling stations in each county that have a mineral oil trading licence; the number of licences that have been revoked, extinguished or expired in each county over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12816/15]

Photo of Michelle MulherinMichelle Mulherin (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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259. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of consignments, on average, of petrol and diesel per filling station with a mineral oil trading licence in County Mayo being reported per month as received by the filling station operators, to the Revenue Commissioners in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12851/15]

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 257 and 259 together.

I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that 134 filling stations were closed down since 2011 for breaches of licensing conditions. The Commissioners also inform me that, while no licences were revoked prior to the introduction of the new licensing regime in late 2011, 3 mineral oil traders' licences were revoked in 2013, including 2 in Dublin and 1 in Cork, and 2 mineral oil traders' licences were revoked in 2014, both in Waterford. No licences have been revoked to date in 2015. In addition, Revenue has refused licence applications from mineral oil traders in this period, including 17 applications in 2012, 22 applications in 2013, and 4 licence applications in 2014. To date in 2015, Revenue has refused one licence application.  The distribution of refusals on a county basis is not readily available.

The number of premises that are currently licensed per county is set out in the schedule below. The Commissioners advise me that the number of licences that relate specifically to filling stations is not readily available. A register of auto fuel and marked fuel traders' licenses is published on the Revenue website and these details are updated monthly. The data can be accessed by the public at the following links to the relevant webpage:

In relation to fuel deliveries to filling stations in Co Mayo, I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that licensed operators of filling stations are required to submit monthly Returns of Oil Movements (ROM 1) showing the total volume of petrol and diesel delivered to their premises each month. The licensing year for Auto Fuel and Marked Fuel Traders runs from 1st July to 30th June annually.  Accordingly, an analysis of data on oil movements is more accurate if confined to that period rather than based on the calendar year, as licence holders may change at the renewal stage and this would distort the data.

An analysis of the data on petrol and road diesel movements to filling stations in Mayo extracted from ROM1 returns has been undertaken for the period 1st July 2013 to 30th June 2014 inclusive (the most recent full licensing year for which such data is available).  This analysis reveals that there was an average of 554 inward movements of road diesel per month, amounting to an average delivery of 118,143 litres per month to each filling station.  The average amount delivered was 18,349 litres per delivery, with an average of 6.4 deliveries per filling station per month. The average total volume of petrol delivered to filling stations in Mayo during the period amounted to 5,134,555 litres, giving an average of 65,339 litres of petrol delivered to each filling station per month. As licence holders may aggregate their deliveries of petrol on their returns, showing a total monthly figure per supplier, it is not possible to provide data on the number of petrol deliveries or the average volume per delivery.

Schedule

Current Mineral Oil Traders' Licences by County at 25th March 2015.
CountyAuto FuelMarked Fuel
Carlow3922
Cavan8065
Clare9457
Cork267132
Donegal146129
Dublin26092
Galway166135
Kerry10957
Kildare9451
Kilkenny5238
Laois5730
Leitrim2823
Limerick13366
Longford3433
Louth8857
Mayo114102
Meath9247
Monaghan8266
Offaly5329
Roscommon4845
Sligo4844
Tipperary13383
Waterford6229
Westmeath6742
Wexford11679
Wicklow5932
Totals25211585

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