Mr. Martin McMahon:

I have only skimmed the surface of what is going on. I have not gotten into any real detail with the committee. There is so much more to this, and there is so much more that I could tell this committee, the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection or the Revenue Commissioners. I believe I should be speaking to An Garda Síochána. That is who I believe I should be speaking to, but until the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection tells An Garda Síochána that I have something to tell it about something that has gone wrong in that Department, it will not listen to me. It has told me this because I have tried.

There is a lot of work to do on this, as Deputy Brady pointed out. With more than €250 million in the construction sector, a very conservative estimate of what this is costing the State is €1 billion per year and it has been going on since before 1995. That is well over €20 billion.