Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Ms Feehily and her colleagues. There is just one topic I wish to touch on briefly arising from what the Chairman said in respect of the defaulters list that is published quarterly. Revenue calls it its list of publishable settlements. I understand there can be a company that pays a great deal of tax, VAT and so on but there might be an issue where not all the tax is paid, but it was a particular point. People must understand that is not necessarily all the tax a person was due to pay in respect of a particular issue. What will come as a surprise is that the public would have assumed, when they see a list of published settlements, that the amounts had been paid or were going to be paid.

The defaulter lists are published by the Revenue Commissioners and we see them in the newspaper every so often. What was the total value of the published settlements in 2012? How much of that money has been received and how much of it is still outstanding?