Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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79. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money the Revenue Commissioners paid as a reward for information received from whistleblowers or other information received and the number of cases involved in each year from 2013 to 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3583/16]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that payments of the kind referred to by the Deputy are made only in certain defined and limited circumstances. The approval of such a payment by Revenue is conditional on the provision of new and/or significant information which results in a substantial recovery of taxes and/or duties, controlled drugs and/or prohibited goods. I understand that no such payments were made in the period from 2013 to 2015.