Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do not have to suggest that to the Deputy. That is agreed.

Next is No. 2320B from Mr. Fergal Lynch, Secretary General, Department of Children and Youth Affairs, dated 11 July 2019, providing a further note as requested by the committee relating to our meeting on 19 June 2019. It includes details of funding family resource centres and childcare facilities under the national childcare investment programme. We will note and publish that

correspondence. It gives a breakdown of all the family resource centres by county and also details of the funding provided to each of those under the various funding categories. It contains quite a bit of information.

We have not received one item. The first one we asked for was to do with pending claims for the Department being managed by the State Claims Agency. In the reply Mr. Lynch states:

The State Claims Agency (SCA) has been requested to provide this information. The information is still being collated by the SCA and will be forwarded to the PAC [as soon as it is received].

We will ask for an update on that because this letter is more than two months old. We want the balance of that information, if it has not been received, to be forwarded to us as quickly as possible. We will note and publish that.

No. 2321B from Mr. Paddy O'Keeffe, Tax Appeals Commission, dated 11 July 2019, is an update on the large cases on its files because we were concerned about very large cases.

No. 2376B, also from Mr. Paddy O'Keeffe, dated 9 September 2019, gives us an update regarding tax appeals in hand. We will publish both of those. Can I see that last one on the screen? I read the earlier one for 11 July in detail. This is the most recent one and it gives a detailed list. It is good to publish them. Most of them relate to corporation tax where major disputes arise. Some individual cases are in excess of €100 million. They give a brief note, which we will publish. It is not possible to give a timeline in respect of some of them. These cases are in the early stage of being processed. Information is being received and examined in respect of some of them. There has been a request for submissions to be made in respect of others. Some of them are before the courts and are being held over until the appeals are dealt with. One of them was the subject of a decision of the Supreme Court and they are examining that. Those ten cases amounted to €2.558 billion, which is a phenomenal amount.