55. Deputy Seamus Kirk asked the Minister for Finance if he has studied the presentation by the former Assistant Garda Commissioner Tony Hickey at the Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation on 15 November 2012 relating to the scale of the problem from the smuggling of tobacco and the laundering of fuel and the stated involvement of criminal gangs in this area and the incredible sums of money that these criminal gangs are defrauding the State of on a weekly basis; his views on whether enough is being done in this area to tackle the problem and to ensure the Exchequer is protected from it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51699/12]

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55. Deputy Seamus Kirk asked the Minister for Finance if he has studied the presentation by the former Assistant Garda Commissioner Tony Hickey at the Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation on 15 November 2012 relating to the scale of the problem from the smuggling of tobacco and the laundering of fuel and the stated involvement of criminal gangs in this area and the incredible sums of money that these criminal gangs are defrauding the State of on a weekly basis; his views on whether enough is being done in this area to tackle the problem and to ensure the Exchequer is protected from it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51699/12]

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