Kevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

From the outset, we are dealing with compliant taxpayers, in that they were prepared to pay. The sense I am getting from Ms Feehily is that Revenue was not confident that they would pay a second time if the situation was left as was. She used the phrase "good governance".

As these 800,000 plus people are compliant taxpayers who paid the tax last time, why was Revenue not confident of their paying in January by either debit or credit card? Was a risk analysis undertaken which supports Revenue's expectation that a large proportion of this 800,000 people would not make the payment in January, February or March?