Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Staff were pulled in from various parts of the Revenue to start up the local property tax. I will refer to my note. The multi-annual pay ceiling provides for an annual average whole time equivalent of 5,874 staff. This represents an increase of approximately 166 whole time equivalents on Revenue's 2014 employment control framework figure of 5,784. The additional provision for staff in 2015 comprises 20 staff for base erosion and profit shifting, 50 permanent staff for the local property tax project and 56 auditors, in line with proposals for Revenue in the Comprehensive Review of Expenditure.

The Deputy has asked whether the 50 staff mentioned in the briefing note for the local property tax are in addition to the 220. It was staffed on the basis of temporary staff for a while. There are approximately 100 temporary staff there. That figure will be reduced and those staff will be replaced by permanent staff. The number will not increase. Temporary staff will be replaced by permanent staff.