Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 October 2016

Public Accounts Committee

2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Tackling Fuel Laundering
Chapter 15 - Taxpayer Compliance
2015 Revenue Accounts

9:00 am

Mr. Niall Cody:

It is a process whereby different oils and different lubricants are added to oil. Essentially, it is diesel stretching and we aware that it happens in eastern Europe. The designer fuels come into the State under different customs entry codes. We have come across some recent examples of it and, in conjunction with our colleagues from Northern Ireland, we have intercepted and seized vehicles and tankers in connection with such activity. We have to monitor and control it but we are fairly satisfied that it is a test operation by people who were previously engaged in fuel laundering.