Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised)
1:30 pm
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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Deputy Noonan spoke about criminal activity in response to Deputy McGrath's question. At this point in time there is a free flow of people crossing the Border in both directions and carrying out their shopping activities because we are in a customs union. We are speculating here but is it a possible outcome, in the event that Britain takes itself out of the customs union and that there is not a free trade agreement between both jurisdictions, the EU and Britain, it would be a criminal activity for an individual from my county to go across the Border to shop in the ASDA in Strabane and to come back with their boot full of shopping without going home and filling in a VAT or customs return? How do we deal with that?