Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will stop on this topic at this point but I want a detailed report on that. I think Mr. McCarthy understands what I am looking for here. There was money coming through and we both know that some of it was never in the Department's system. Some of what was coming through possibly was in the Department's system but the Department should know how many of the 5,000 people who paid last year were people about whom the Department knew nothing. It should know many of them were not on the Department's books in 2013 and how many of the people who were on the books at that time have paid their liabilities in full. That will give us an indication of the outstanding liabilities. The Department is collecting €35 million per year with zero effort on the part of the State. All of the money is coming from conveyancing and solicitors telling people that they have to pay up. It is good that such a mechanism exists but it is not good enough to wait for 40 years for some of that to work through the system. I want to see how the Department can proactively deal with money that is there to be collected but which no effort is being made to collect it. I ask Mr. McCarthy to provide a detailed report on that. I expect that such a report will take a little bit of time but-----