Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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446. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if support or funding is being provided to Irish exporters and hauliers seeking to acquire AEO status. [28706/18]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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Revenue is the organisation responsible for authorising AEO status and I am informed by them that no fee is charged for processing AEO applications. Any further aid to firms would, of course, be contrary to the principles of the European Union single market, which prohibit State aids except in the most limited of circumstances. Meanwhile, my Department continues to support the interests of the Irish road transport industry as a whole and has regular and ongoing contact with representative groups from the sector.