Written answers

Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Department of Finance

Tobacco Smuggling

Photo of Robert DowdsRobert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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137. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on tobacco seizures in the four Dublin local authority areas for the years 2009 to 2012. [26815/13]

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that data on seizures of tobacco products are not compiled on the basis of local authority areas and that it would not be possible, therefore, to provide the Deputy with separate figures in respect of each of the four local authority areas in Dublin. Information can be provided, however, for the overall seizures made in the Revenue Commissioners’ Dublin Region, which encompasses the administrative areas of the four Dublin local authorities, and is set out in the following table. The majority of the seizures listed in the table took place at Dublin Port and Dublin Airport.

YearCigarettes
(millions)
Other Tobacco
Products
(Kilograms)
200981.99,452
201098.51,398
201178.47,069
201282.73,617

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