Aideen Hayden (Labour) | Oireachtas source

Basically, the Revenue does not have that information so my supposition may correct.

It seems from the exchange between Ms Feehily and the Chairman that there are no legal issues at play here because the law says that the payment is due on or before 1 January, except where an agreement is reached with the Revenue Commissioners. The Chairman explored with Ms Feehily the possibility of that agreement constituting an individual's permission to the commissioners to debit his or her credit or debit card at some future date. Her response, if I remember correctly, was that this was a route that she did not wish to follow. In other words, the Revenue Commissioners do not want to hold card details, as opposed to not being entitled to do so. She suggested that it was something that was possible but not something the commissioners wanted to pursue. My understanding is that there are no data protection issues involved here and that there is no impediment to Revenue taking account details and processing the payments at a later date. That is my understanding of the exchange between Ms Feehily and the Chairman. Is that correct?