Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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On 28 August 2020, I announced that court fees and their associated excise and stamp duty relating to renewal of licences will be waived in 2020, as part of the wider support package that was announced by the Government.

Further to this, the District Court (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2020 was signed on 13 October 2020. The order implements the Government Decision to waive court fees for specified pub and other liquor licences in 2020 and came into operation on 23 October 2020.

Fees have been waived in respect of the following:

- On an application for a certificate of transfer of a licence - €150

- On the issue of a certificate of renewal of a licence (where the licence is a spirit retailer’s on-licence) - €150

- On an application for a General Exemption Order - €150

- On an application for a restaurant certificate or a limited restaurant certificate - €150

- On an application for a certificate of registration of a club - €150

- On an application for any public dancing licence - €335

- On an application for a music and singing licence - €150

In addition, Revenue has waived the excise duty on on-trade liquor licence renewals and the Finance Bill 2020 will make provision to waive the excise duty in relation to:

- Public dancing licence - €155 excise duty

- Renewal of registration of registered club - €505 excise duty