Pearse Doherty
Question:101. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked 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]
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Questions (101, 102)
Pearse Doherty
Question:102. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked 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]
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I propose to take 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.
|
Year |
Amount |
|
2010 |
€56,635 |
|
2011 |
€51,933 |
|
2012 |
€266,247 |
|
2013 |
€207,566 |
|
2014 |
€213,385 |
The values of cigarettes, other tobacco products, alcohol, counterfeit products and illegal drugs seized in those years are indicated in the following table.
|
Year |
Cigarettes €million |
Tobacco €million |
Alcohol €million |
Counterfeit Products €million |
Illegal Drugs €million |
|
2010 |
75.2 |
1.2 |
0.6 |
2.65 |
9.02 |
|
2011 |
46 |
4 |
0.55 |
9.09 |
24.07 |
|
2012 |
43.3 |
1.95 |
0.7 |
5.45 |
49.3 |
|
2013 |
18.9 |
1.7 |
1.5 |
4.13 |
20.81 |
|
2014 |
25.5 |
4.2 |
0.6 |
-* |
91.02 |
(* Data in respect of 2014 not yet available)
All seized products of these kinds, other than small quantities of goods e.g. clothing and footwear that are donated for charitable purposes, are destroyed when they are no longer required for evidential or related purposes.