Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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101. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of goods destroyed by the Revenue Commissioners, Customs and Excise in the each of the past five years. [2874/15]

Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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102. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of goods sold by the Revenue Commissioners, Customs and Excise in each of the past five years. [2875/15]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I propose to answer Questions Nos. 101 and 102 together.

I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that goods seized by them in the exercise of their statutory powers which are not returned to the person from whom they are seized may be disposed of by being sold or destroyed or, in the case of motor vehicles, by being allocated for use by the Revenue Commissioners, An Garda Síochána or the Defence Forces.

The amounts realised by Revenue from the sale of seized goods in the years in question are set out in the following table.