Mr. Niall Cody:

In the context of tax receipts and forecasts, Revenue supports the Department of Finance. We provide our detailed knowledge of company level developments. In the context of the budget estimates and forecasting, we engage with the large multinationals and large Irish companies on what they anticipate will be the position for the following year.

Since 2015, we have been publishing an annual report on corporation tax receipts to provide as much information as possible to facilitate the discussions about which the Deputy is talking. The aggregate data underlying all of our information is available to the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. It has access to our figures and if-----