John O'Mahony (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I pay tribute to the Revenue and Customs Service for the increased detection but that could be viewed in another way, namely, that this practice has become so epidemic they are still only scratching the surface, so to speak. First, will the Minister indicate if extra resources have been allocated this year to the detection of these sites and service stations? Second, regarding the fuel, what is the up to date scientific diagnosis? Has science overcome the detection problem, which was increased because of the low sulphur level in diesel? Has it caught up with that? Is illegal fuel more detectable than it was six months ago, for example? If not, we still have a problem.

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