Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 June 2023
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Public Service Performance Report 2022
Richard 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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