Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Is the smartphone app solely for cigarettes or tobacco or can it be used for pharmaceuticals and electrical equipment?

I think Mr. Prendergast said it again, the majority of our ports and airports still have an insufficient number of scanners. There is nothing to stop people bringing this stuff into the country.

Can Mr. Fearon confirm the methodology that he used in the Grant Thornton report? Everyone accepts that there is a problem. Everybody accepts that the figure being lost to the economy is quite big. A few weeks ago the Minister for Finance supplied a different figure in his reply to a parliamentary question. There is a difference of almost €200 million between both figures which is a lot of money. Where did Mr. Fearon get his figures? Was it from the tobacco industry, Revenue or another source?