Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent)
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157. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number of silent SMS messages the Revenue Commission or any agency under his remit has instructed providers to send in the past three years and by network provider; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37068/13]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I am assuming from the question raised by the Deputy that “silent SMS messages” refer to the practice of sending a text message to a mobile telephone without the knowledge of the receiving mobile telephone’s owner and that it is a technique that can be used, inter alia, to locate a person’s whereabouts. I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners and other bodies under the remit of my Department that they have not instructed any network provider to send silent SMS messages in the past three years.