John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I understand. Can the Minister of State tell me a little about the black economy and the Revenue Commissioners' examination of containers that come in through our ports relative to cigarette smuggling, alcohol smuggling and so on? We have been told by those at the coalface of retail business that there is a huge amount of undetected cigarettes and alcohol coming through the ports and that the Revenue Commissioners do not have the appropriate number of scanners available to them in the ports to increase their scrutiny of what is coming into the State.