Mr. Gerry Howard:

To respond on some of the issues raised by the Deputy, I do not have the figures with me and I am not trying to be evasive or anything like it. We will take away the issues about which he has asked us and undertake to give him the information we have as quickly as we can. I also need to tell him the information we do not have. That is just the nature of the tax system. People pay their taxes on a previous year basis. They will send in their returns now for 2015 and we will then have the information. That is why there is a gap in the information.

We will let the Deputy have the information he requested on the double Irish as soon as we can get it for him.

On the RCT system, in a previous role I worked in an operational area. It has always been one of the issues at which we have always looked. We have regular audit programmes to look into these matters and the issue is taken very seriously. We work with the Department of Social Protection and NERA on the RCT system, as well as with people involved in the construction industry. If there is any evidence, we take it seriously and where we have it, we change people's status from being a subcontractor to an employee. That happens regularly also. If anybody has information, we invite him or her to pass it on to us and we will act on it.