Ms Josephine Feehily:

Since approximately 4 p.m. on Friday, 400,000 returns have been filed. Returns were being filed online at a rate of 10,000 an hour yesterday afternoon when we decided to extend the deadline and this morning were running at 2,000 an hour. A colossal proportion of the total has come in in the past few days, which is probably to be expected given our reaction to deadlines generally. It is the same with the online filing for income tax.