Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 3 July 2018

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion

4:00 pm

Mr. Gerard Brady:

Newspapers are covered by it as well.

It is part of the state aid implications. There is a technical reason connected with VAT that a certain number of sectors have to come under it. That is the reason for it and the one we have been given. Only about €150 million goes directly to hotels. Restaurants and everything else are included. One of the issues is that hotels have restaurants and bars which cannot be separated out because they are all part of the same complex. In some cases, they also have a hairdressers. It makes it very complicated to split the different sectors from each other. It is one of the reasons it affects more than hotels and that it has a broader reach.

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