Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Fuel Fraud: Revenue Commissioners

10:40 am

Photo of Michael McCarthyMichael McCarthy (Cork South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I will be brief. I have questions written out and I will ask them without including any additions. How often is there collaboration between An Garda Síochána and the Revenue Commissioners in regard to detecting and subsequently prosecuting issues of petrol stretching and the wider issues around that, for example, fuel laundering? Are there any subversive groups involved in petrol stretching? Is there a commonality of criminality between those who are involved in fuel laundering and petrol stretching? How resourced is Revenue to deal with the issue? That is a vague way of asking Mr. Moran if Revenue has sufficient resources to deal with that. Are there any cross-links with the fuel launderers and the petrol stretchers? What is the estimated loss to the Exchequer?

In terms of aggrieved motorists, when one's finances are stretched and one has a car loan and finds one's car is no longer operable because of this criminality, is the only recourse one has through the Sale of Goods and Supply of Services Act? If the answer is "No", which I suspect it is, is there a role here for the insurance companies to consider providing cover to those misfortunates who are trapped in this very regrettable situation?

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