Questions

159. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether his Department, the Revenue Commissioners or any agency under his remit has undertaken an assessment of the scale of betting or betting-intermediary activity by persons in the State on websites or platforms that do not hold an Irish licence; the estimated value of such activity; the estimated tax foregone; and if he will make a statement on t…

173. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance to provide data for 1 January 2026 to 30 June 2026 inclusive outlining the number of cigarette and tobacco seizures carried out by the Revenue Commissioners; to provide a breakdown on the location of each seizure, by county; to provide the value of each seizure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54234/26]

353. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Finance the number of enforcement and trade facilitation allowanced staff working in each of the Revenue Commissioners frontier management branches; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63037/25]

364. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will amend the current contract with its suppliers of unique identifier codes for tobacco products in order to introduce provisions for emergency ordering of unique identifier codes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63461/25]

443. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Finance to provide for comparative purposes, the number of staff working in each of Revenue's frontier management branches in 2022 to 2024, and to end of September 2025; and the number of new staff recruited or reassigned to each branch in 2022 to date in 2025, by year, in tabular form. [57886/25]

102. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Finance the steps the Revenue Commissioners will take to ensure that the electronic products tax is being paid on all eligible products; and if inspections will be carried out in retail premises who sell vaping products. [55604/25]

103. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Finance if the retail licensing system will be used to inspect retailers and products for sale as a mechanism for helping to enforce the electronic products tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55605/25]

104. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Finance the metric the Revenue Commissioners use to determine when stock supplied before 1 November is cleared from the market and the stock in the market which is liable for excise, considering that the Revenue Commissioners have confirmed that only stock first supplied after 1 November will be subject to excise tax, and not product already supplied; and if he will make…

105. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Finance if his Department carried out an assessment on the impact the introduction of excise on vaping products will have on cross-Border trade given that excise will not be applied to vaping products in Northern Ireland. [55612/25]

106. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Finance the way in which the Revenue Commissioners will collect and publish data on the enforcement of the electronic products tax. [55613/25]

107. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Finance the penalties that will be in place for suppliers, including retailers, who are found to have supplied product without registering for and paying electronic products tax. [55614/25]

20. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Finance to provide data for the first six months of the year outlining the number of cigarette and tobacco seizures carried out by the Revenue Commissioners; to provide a breakdown on the location of each seizure, by county; to provide the value of each seizure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38192/25]

616. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Finance the total number of individual scans by Revenue Commissioners mobile scanners and backscatter van in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21110/25]