Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I join colleagues in welcoming Mr. Cody, Mr. Boyle and Ms O'Gorman to the meeting and I thank them for the speed with which they have implemented the new schemes with the Department of Social Protection and the other complex systems in these unprecedented times where work practices have changed. The manner in which they have assisted taxpayers and businesses is to admired.

I would like to get an understanding of Revenue's response to the immediate and uncertain environment that Covid has presented. A key component of the Government's response to Covid was the temporary wage subsidy scheme, TWSS, and the employment wage subsidy scheme, EWSS, where Revenue had assumed responsibility for both. The schemes were built around its PAYE real-time infrastructure, or PAYE modernisation. How has the system coped with the additional work during this period?