Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 November 2023
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary)
Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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In the overall area of enforcement and compliance, the Revenue has around 2,000 professionals. This is an area of priority for them and they have had a lot of success. I do not have data to hand about the level of seizures, the value, the volume and so on. We can certainly provide whatever information the Deputy needs in that regard, but the Revenue has been given significant resources to support them in that work.
I have just been handed some data on cases and court fines, for example, as regards the smoking of tobacco. I will put it on the record if the Deputy so wishes.