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Licensed Haulage Emergency Support Scheme
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The Licensed Haulage Emergency Support Scheme is open to applications.
On 15 March 2022 the Government approved the Licensed Haulage Emergency Support Scheme (“the Scheme”) to assist the licensed haulage sector with the recent escalation in fuel costs. The Scheme will provide 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.
On 19 May 2022, Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan and Minister of State with special responsibility for haulage and logistics Hildegarde Naughton announced the extension of the closing date for receipt of completed applications for the Scheme to 6 June 2022.
The Scheme is being administered by the Department of Transport. Application forms have been provided directly to all licensed hauliers by email using the email address held on file by the Road Transport Operator Licensing Unit in Loughrea.
Closing date for receipt of completed applications is close of business, Monday, 6 June 2022.
To be eligible for the Scheme, a Qualifying Applicant must meet all the following criteria as of 11 March 2022:
- Business Type: The main qualifying condition is that the applicant legal entity must hold a valid road haulage operator licence issued by the Road Transport Operator Licensing Unit of the Department of Transport in accordance with Section 2 of the Road Traffic and Transport Act 2006.
- Current operations: Applicants must be operating as a going concern.
- Insolvency: Applicants must confirm that the business has not commenced (or does not intend to commence) any steps to insolvency/liquidation proceedings.
- Tax status: Applicants must be established and registered for tax in the State, with current tax clearance status. Applicants will be required to supply their tax reference number as part of the application process. Tax clearance status will be checked with the Revenue Commissioners as part of the administration of the Scheme.
- Vehicles in respect of which aid may be claimed – Applicants may only apply for aid in respect of vehicles authorised on their road haulage licence as of 11 March 2022.
One payment will be made to each eligible operator covering the eight weeks support. Payments will be made by Electronic Funds Transfer.
The scheme will be operated in accordance with EU State Aid Rules – see below detailed Terms and Conditions of the Scheme.
In order to administer the Scheme, the Department of Transport requires applicants to provide certain personal data. See below Privacy Notice for more detail.
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