Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 February 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Maybe some kind of global figure could be provided. The industry is forever telling us the amount of money collected in transport taxes, be it from the sale of new cars, excise duties on fuel or motor car tax. What is the overall picture and overall expenditure? We know some of it gets absorbed in general taxation. The water thing goes into the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and the Department pays it off to Irish Water. It does not go through the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport to Irish Water. The Society of the Irish Motor Industry and such bodies are forever producing reports-----

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