James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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6. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will include trucks driven by Irish taxpayers and registered to other European Union countries in line with European Union regulations in the licensed haulage support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31053/22]

Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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The European and Global oil markets are currently volatile, due to the conflict in Ukraine exacerbating pre-existing market shortages, primarily of diesel. This has caused a spike in the price of crude and in the price of refined products on the retail market.

On 15 March 2022, Minister Ryan and I proposed to Government an emergency support measure – the Licensed Haulage Emergency Support Scheme. The Scheme provided support of €100 per week, for eight weeks, for each eligible heavy goods vehicle (HGV) authorised on the licence of a road haulage operator as of 11 March 2022.

The Scheme was administered by the Department of Transport. Over €15 million has been paid out under the Scheme to 2,921 licensed operators. Further eligible applications received prior to the closing date on 06 June 2022 will be processed over the coming days and final payments will be made shortly.  I can confirm the Scheme is now closed to further applications.