Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Fuel Fraud: Revenue Commissioners
11:10 am
Mr. Gerard Moran:
Most of the mixing would happen in the warehouse, before the point where it leaves. I need to check it but I do not believe we take a sample. We are interested in the volume. Another agency is responsible for the biofuel content. The companies do this in the warehouses. The Deputy asked if we could sample every truck leaving the warehouse. We could but it would cost a great deal to do so. However, that would not prevent someone from contaminating the fuel at a later point in the supply chain. For example, with diesel laundering, it was not being laundered in the warehouse, it was happening further down the distribution chain.
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