Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised)
2:00 am
Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael)
My apologies for being late. The Minister's opening statement mentioned that customs enforcement led to more than 21,000 detections. That is more than 400 per week, yielding €361 million. It works out at approximately €6.94 million per week. It sounds extremely high.
I also want to check the issue of online purchasing and whether there has been an increase in items not being in compliance with customs.
The Minister said that in 2024, there were 310,989 risk management interventions carried out that yielded €591 million, which is a substantial sum. Will the Minister outline what risk management interventions are? I had not heard of them before. It is certainly a lot of money. Between these two items, we are talking about more than €800 million and nearly €900 million.
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