John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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The reason I am pursuing the matter is that we are constantly lobbied about it by the Small Firms Association, the Irish Road Haulage Association and concerned individuals. The point they all make is that while legitimate businesses throughout the country are targeted for VAT, income tax, corporation tax or whatever, in the case of those actors in the shadow economy who are operating at a level that is causing difficulty for some of the largest businesses in the country, there is not the same application of resources. I am asking Mr. Cody about diesel laundering but I have heard the same thing said in respect, for instance, of illegal cigarettes. Although the numbers we have seen today are quite impressive in terms of what Revenue has already done, the organisations and individuals who lobby us on these matters are saying it is not enough. How would Mr. Cody answer that criticism?