Mr. Niall Cody:

The good citizen report is important with regard to legitimate trade and parts of the legitimate supply chain. If a business deals with a range of customers who suddenly disappear and do not buy from it anymore, generally it will know the customers who are buying from it. We regularly meet trade groups and are told about the generality of shadow economy activity. One of the things we have said, through the hidden economy monitoring group for trade interests, is that if we are given specific details, we will follow up on each of them. It is not enough to say stuff is being sold somewhere down the road; we need hard facts. Legitimate traders generally knows what is going on in their local business community.