Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 June 2023

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Public Service Performance Report 2022

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Yes, I get that and we do not want to have it so dense with detail, fine print and what not that it becomes unreadable. I definitely think tax expenditure is a significant area. In the case of film, for example, the biggest source of funding is not direct expenditure through Screen Ireland; the biggest expenditure is a tax break. There may be other instances of this. I am sure there are. In forestry, for example, there are tax reliefs that are a significant part of trying to deliver forestry as well as the direct expenditure by the Department. It would make sense that we see them all altogether.

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