Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport
Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association
2:00 am
Mr. Paul Jackman:
In Belgium, they take 4,700 samples and they use doubles. On a pro rata basis, they have ten times the sampling regime that we have. It is done by a state-appointed authority, Fapetro. We have no authority here. With water works, more than 500,000 samples are taken every year. They have their own labs and they do 1.2 million tests on water every year. We send our diesel samples to the UK. There is no fuel quality oversight in Ireland and, as a consequence, there are a lot of issues.
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