Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 December 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports
9:30 am
James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I welcome the witnesses from the Office of the Revenue Commissioners. The temporary wage subsidy scheme was an excellent scheme that helped many employers to keep on workers throughout the pandemic. In an era when there is so much mobility within the workforce and when many employers are experiencing difficulty with trying to get staff, it was a prudent move overall. Am I correct in stating the original qualifying mechanism was such that the firm had to have experienced a drop of 25% in overall turnover because of Covid-19?
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