Seán Kenny (Dublin North East, Labour)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

35. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons prosecuted for cigarette and tobacco smuggling in Dublin Port and Dublin Airport in 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10595/14]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that, during 2012-2013, 70 prosecutions resulting in convictions for tobacco smuggling arose from detections made at Dublin Airport, and 1 prosecution leading to conviction for that offence related to a detection made at Dublin Port.  A number of other prosecutions relating to alleged smuggling detected at those locations in the period in question are before the Courts at present and files are being prepared, with a view to prosecution, in others.