Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 April 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023

Ms Laurena Leacy:

I will answer the question on the capital expenditure reporting. The solidarity contribution will be administered by the Revenue Commissioners and they will be given powers. As this is not a tax, they need powers to administer, collect and undertake assessments of the returns on this contribution. Those kinds of figures will be provided to Revenue by the company. There is strong data protection around company information that is provided to Revenue Commissioners, so I do not want to promise that data will become available to the Government. It is something that I will possibly need to come back to the committee on - the rules around data protection for companies providing data to Revenue and what to extent, I assume, to the contribution. I can look at that a bit more closely.

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