Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach

Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage

2:00 am

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)

It is 224, okay. The issue here - and this only gives us an indication of what happened in that particular year - is that of those 224, does the Minister have the detail of how many of them used the provision in the tax code that allows them to pay their taxation liability over the 20-year period? For any public sector worker who has a CET liability, some people might just want to get rid of it and all the rest. That is fine but for most people, there is no interest accruing in this over 20 years and it dies with you on your death. Any financial adviser would say you should be using this mechanism. Do we know how many of those 224 actually use the mechanism? Do we know what proportion?

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