Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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It would be a considerable drain on their resources if they are not imposing any kind of charge although I appreciate, at €90 a year, it is not a huge amount, if one thinks of it on a weekly basis.

Deputy Costello raised issues about illicit fuel and tobacco and so on. I appreciate that it is primarily Government and political parties which make policy. The Revenue Commissioners must have intelligence in such areas that it might have ideas about how best a particular problem, such as illicit fuel, might be tackled. Do the Revenue Commissioners feed that into the system or do those involved simply keep their mouths shut? I appreciate the Revenue cannot dictate to a government that it must do X, but it might be in a position where it could provide evidence of why a particular course might be more likely to work than another.