Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 November 2022
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Denyse Campbell:
I can take that. To come back to a few of the Deputy’s points, he mentioned the 9% VAT rate. He is correct that it would be great if we could secure the 9% VAT rate. Like all our businesses, we secure business two to three years in advance. That is our base business that we work on. For international competitiveness, 9% is the correct VAT rate.
Regarding staffing, pre-Covid we had approximately 270,000 people employed. We are probably back up now to between 240,000 and 250,000. We have found that there is probably a skills shortage that would be a concern for us, but we are working through that. Staffing and recruitment is a challenge in our industry in the moment.
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