Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)

A very serious tax scam concerning charities was unearthed in Britain so let us not pretend that it will not happen here. It is important that the Revenue Commissioners carry out a very thorough check.

Will the Department provide information to warn people about fake mass cards and door-to-door collections of clothes for fake charities? These scams make big money and are big business. Dublin County Council sold the rights to pick up clothes to a private company. Liberties Recycling was bringing in drug addicts, retraining them and helping them along, but the county council gave away that business to a private company. I hope that officials from the Department talk to officials from Dublin County Council with a view to doing a deal with the charities to ensure that we can get people back into the workplace again.

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