Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 November 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts

9:00 am

Mr. John Hogan:

I think there is a standard approach in that, in normal state aid cases, the interrelationship between the member state and the Commission services is at a particular level. In this case, given its complexity and bespoke nature, we have tried to bring the Commission along in its understanding of what we would be faced with when we would look to put the structure in place to capture this amount of money. Earlier in the year I was anxious to ensure there would be no misunderstanding. We would have tried to alleviate any misunderstanding on the Commission's part that this was a simple matter of opening an account and putting the money in it; that was just not what was going to happen and could not possibly happen. Therefore, we have been building our relationship with the Commission services team over time. In the past few weeks our team has been sitting down face-to-face with Commission staff to bring them through the structure and design as we currently see them. We will continue to do this over time.

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