Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners

6:15 pm

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The final figure has not been agreed. I have a final question. It relates to Brexit, which is very topical at present. It is off the subject but we have all seen the leaked document, which I understand is an incomplete desktop study. There were suggestions that the Revenue Commissioners were asked to stop the work they were doing. Are the Revenue Commissioners carrying out a further assessment of the implications of Brexit? Are they getting ready for what I view as a potential nightmare scenario where the North would leave the customs union and there would have to be checks? How ready can the Department be in respect of personnel, capacity, IT and so forth to deal with that potential scenario, which hopefully is never realised?

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