Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary)
2:00 am
Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael)
I ask about the MV Matthew, which is in the Port of Cork. The cost to date is €6.4 million in relation to a seized vessel which has been detained for over two years. Why is it costing that kind of money and why do we need to detain it for such a period? It sounds like a huge cost to detain a vessel. For much longer will we be detaining it? Is there an estimate for next year as to what it will cost?
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