Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 September 2019
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Pre-Budget Scrutiny: Minister for Finance
Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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We are potentially looking at a smuggling zone. Nobody wants a hard border, but I understand there are about seven gangs operating along the Border, some of which have loyalist links, while the majority have republican links. What will the Minister do to deal with the smuggling issue? When I was in government we had lots of briefings.