Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 6 October 2020
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised)
Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Everything the Government announces on budget day is subject to available resources. Everything the Deputy has just outlined is dependent on resources being available. It will not be announced until the day. I indicated earlier that, with regard to withholding tax, the Department of Finance had to prioritise the temporary wage subsidy scheme, the employee wage subsidy scheme and the July stimulus package. These matters took precedence over things we normally would have done. I have accepted that.
A valid question was to ask what was not done this year that we do every year and that we had to put to one side due to the Covid-19 and to do those other measures. I accept that there was no summer statement. I, and I think most people, preferred to have the July stimulus that dealt with the temporary wage subsidy scheme, TWSS, and then the employment wage subsidy scheme, EWSS, because it affected the sustainability of people's income. I accept the point-----
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