Emer Currie (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chairman for accommodating me. I did have the issue of double taxation on my list of points to raise. I did not actually mention it the first time round. Other contributors raised the issue. It is one which I have been pushing in the Seanad and with the Minister for Finance. The last update I received was that the issue is on the agenda of the tax strategy group and the papers are to be published this summer. The complication is that the transborder workers' tax relief that normally exists outside of the Covid-19 pandemic does not just relate to the North. Therefore, for someone who lives in Buncrana and works in Belfast, pays tax in the North and not in the South, that transborder workers' tax relief actually involves places other than the North. The group is looking at a solution. I must say that it is absolutely essential to resolve the issue in terms of the potential of remote work. It is an issue that I will follow up and on which I will also perhaps engage with the witnesses directly.