Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 May 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 11: VAT on Intra-Community Trade

11:40 am

Ms Josephine Feehily:

I suppose it is part of the same answer. Our staff in this area are part of the group of 2,000 that I mentioned. As we have managed the decrease in our numbers, we have maintained the proportion of our staff involved in compliance, we have increased the number of staff involved in debt recovery and we have not reduced the number of staff who have enforcement duties. We have not reduced the number of uniformed staff that we deploy to duties at airports and ports and elsewhere throughout the country. We have disproportionately hit other parts of the organisation in order to maintain the numbers involved in these areas. Our involvement in the drugs issue is confined to the point of import - airports and ports. We do not have a role with regard to inland drugs. We have maintained staff numbers despite the reductions.

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