Green diesel is intended for off-road use. Photo: Getty

Green diesel is intended for off-road use. Photo: Getty

Revenue has ended its use of mobile machines to detect illicit fuel and has instead gone back to using static machines.

In 2016, the Revenue Commissioners paid €285,000 for five ­micro-gas mobile analysers, which were fitted in vans to allow for rapid on-site testing of suspected laundered diesel and kerosene.