Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 16 Dec 1986

Vol. 370 No. 13

Written Answers. - Customs Seizures.

166.

Mr. Gregory-Independent

asked the Minister for Finance the number and value of seizures of smuggled goods made by officers of customs and excise at each frontier post, road station and by land frontier mobile patrol units for each of the past ten years.

Minister for Finance (Mr. J. Bruton)

The information requested is in the following tables. Table A refers to seizures at frontier posts and road stations. Table B refers to seizures by land frontier mobile patrol units. Table C refers to two areas for each of which only combined figures are available.

TABLE A

	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986 (Jan.-Sept.)
Location/	No.	Value	No.	Value	No.	Value	No.	Value	No.	Value	No.	Value	No.	Value	No.	Value	No.	Value	No.	Value
Frontier Post		£		£		£		£		£		£		£		£		£		£
Muff:
Fr. Post	5	1,800	4	700	3	1,000	6	2,100	8	2,300	9	4,500	23	7,100	12	3,500	6	1,900	10	4,700
Rd. Stn.	—	—	1	250	2	1,100	3	8,000	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	250	1	100
Bridgend:
Fr. Post	7	1,800	3	400	4	1,000	17	2,700	19	4,700	32	16,500	31	10,700	35	15,400	26	7,500	24	9,50
Rd. Stn.	—	—	1	200	1	1,000	1	250	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	1,500	1	1,200	—	—
Carrigans:
Fr. Post	—	—	1	400	1	450	—	—	2	1,000	2	1,600	—	—	3	450	3	1,400	3	1,850
Rd. Stn.	1	200	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	1,300	1	2,000	1	6,000	—	—	—	—	1	2,500
Kildrum:
Fr. Post	11	1,730	22	2,600	6	2,000	34	12,500	16	7,900	11	3,500	17	5,400	20	6,700	21	10,850	11	6,600
Litford:
Fr. Post	8	6,000	10	19,500	8	1,380	9	1,150	6	1,940	12	14,745	7	1,550	8	1,300	13	11,500	25	28,500
Rd. Stn.	1	1,000	4	2,500	4	2,800	4	3,000	1	600	4	4,200	2	1,700	2	2,300	1	2,000	—	—
Kilclean:
Fr. Post	5	1,800	5	1,970	3	925	1	250	1	750	2	1,457	4	1,400	1	360	4	4,700	5	8,400
Pettigo:
Fr. Post	2	549	2	770	1	480	2	9,620	—	—	2	5,160	7	1,370	2	350	4	1,870	6	4,650
Ballyshannon:
Rd. Stn.	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	70	3	10,300	3	2,038	2	10,000
Cloghore:
Fr. Post	—	—	—	—	1	100	2	500	1	353	2	450	8	1,745	11	3,400	3	2,785	5	1,950
Manorhamilton:
Rd. Stn.	—	—	2	5,366	1	16,382	4	8,623	1	35	2	16,380	2	1,734	3	5,050	2	3,305	2	1,126
Swanlinbar:
Rd. Stn. and Fr. Post	47	59,827	32	22,997	9	5,165	8	19,897	23	19,043	15	38,775	52	12,909	105	30,806	37	15,233	56	33,728
Ballyconnell:
Fr. Post	—	—	—	—	5	7,721	7	4,280	—	—	5	1,509	12	12,398	5	1,223	4	1,505	3	2,530
Clones:
Fr. Post and Rd. Stn.	—	—	—	—	5	869	12	47,413	9	8,336	15	17,538	13	14,303	12	15,508	10	15,546	10	2,008
Tyholland:
Fr. Post	Records not available	86	111,708	82	168,379	88	203,993	48	92,140	64	185,948	89	102,279
Monaghan:
Rd. Stn.	2	5,500	—	—	3	6,486	7	6,016	4	13,080	4	120,377	4	12,767	12	17,289	3	4,638	9	16,596
Moybridge:
Fr. Post	—	—	4	12,573	31	17,554	74	94,111	34	16,419	56	39,977	53	21,006	29	17,961	12	8,207	21	17,139
Dundalk:
Rail	—	—	1	269	—	—	—	—	4	10	10	376	21	410	—	—	1	5	1	99
Rd. Stn.	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	200	—	—	8	72,470	14	69,688	15	66,030	15	30,410	29	124,429
Carrickcarnan
Fr. Post	32	19,040	25	14,575	28	19,620	31	32,311	20	46,117	99	37,418	209	58,553	331	175,575	218	122,480	240	119,912
Ferryhill:
Fr. Post	3	8,270	1	50	1	3,308	8	6,404	2	3,000	14	3,838	31	41,165	21	6,108	7	1,596	25	17,622
Greenore:	—	—	2	4	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4	4,329	—	—	—	—

TABLE B

	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986 (Jan.-Sept.)
Location/ Frontier Post	No.	Value£	No.	Value£	No.	Value£	No.	Value£	No.	Value£	No.	Value£	No.	Value£	No.	Value£	No.	Value£	No.	Value£
Land Frontier:
Mobile seizures	334	409,918	382	407,513	262	327,965	280	311,217	201	327,160	276	409,081	436	611,620	393	537,323	326	547,491	523	1,444,864

TABLE C

	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986 (Jan.-Sept.)
Location/ Frontier Post	No.	Value£	No.	Value£	No.	Value£	No.	Value£	No.	Value£	No.	Value£	No.	Value£	No.	Value£	No.	Value£	No.	Value£
Blacklion:
Fr. Post & Mobile	68	103,750	29	60,100	38	81,800	21	52,860	15	44,087	15	45,800	62	163,319	70	176,419	38	157,250	65	191,870
Tullynagrow:
Fr. Post & Castleblayney Rd. Stn. & Mobiles	37	99,577	35	232,204	36	102,757	23	102,085	36	89,166	62	100,026	92	298,648	67	230,868	32	64,543	50	141,544