Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

My understanding is that we are looking for some administration in this area. With an invoice or settlement request a piece of paper is provided. The agricultural community is seeking for the PPS number to be on such a piece of paper. This is to avoid transactions on the black market. It is like anything else. If one buys something from an advertisement in a newspaper or from any contractor, such a person must have a tax clearance certificate, a VAT number, or PPS number, but the invoices or settlement documents need not include any of those numbers. This amendment would compel them to include the number. It would put in place an additional lock to prevent black market activity.