Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wanted to ask about illegal sales of diesel but it has just been covered. With regard to tobacco, periodically we see good news stories, predominantly through An Garda Síochána tweeting and sending notices to the media about large-scale seizures, which are always very good to see. Customs and Excise plays a considerable role in this. In terms of small-scale tobacco sales in high street venues and markets, I want to focus on markets because I have a couple of markets in north county Dublin of very long standing. If they are not decades old they are possibly over 100 years old. They have been moved around a wee bit but they are still there and there is still quite a significant amount of illegal goods available. It is of huge concern to people in the constituency because the markets have been there for so long and it is a tradition. People do not like to break traditions just because some people are ruining it for others. It is a general observation as opposed to something specific about these locations. I know it is very common nationwide.