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THE GOVERNMENT wants to “get to the bottom of” the controversy surrounding the granting of a road haulage licence to a convicted drugs dealer, the Dáil has been told.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen said they would establish what policy or legislative changes were necessary and how “we would proceed to close off any gaps in information that may have arisen in this case that enabled this person to get a licence,” when it should have “raised many questions before he would get it.”