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
Mr. Niall Cody:
Absolutely. Deputy Pearse Doherty has asked us many parliamentary questions.
He was probably the only person who had read the comprehensive review in 2014 when we actually put figures on what additional revenue we could raise in having additional compliance staff. That is what we have included in our business case in the past three years. The simple thing for me to do would be to say we need an extra funding of X amount. However, we need to have the capacity to take in staff and develop them as we lose many experienced personnel. We are getting in excellent people, but there are challenges in recruitment in Dublin. The Deputy spoke about financial firms on the quays in the financial services centre. We are competing with them in recruitment. We will continue to advertise for more staff. We provide an array of interesting jobs which I think are worthwhile. If one were working in some of the offices on the quays, one would not have as much interesting or useful work to do.
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