Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 November 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Tackling the Black Market and Retail Crime Report: Discussion

11:10 am

Mr. Tony Hickey:

On the question of the supervision of the legal trade, we can supply the joint committee with the figures when we collate them. It is not a criticism of the people that are doing what they are paid to do, but there seems to be an imbalance. Much of the illegal trade is underground and covert. I just wished to make the point on the perceived imbalance.