Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 7 - Audit of Revenue 2011
Chapter 8 - Revenue Outturn 2011
Chapter 9 - Revenue Debt Collection
Chapter 10 - Increasing Tax Compliance

11:00 am

Ms Josephine Feehily:

The criteria that are specified in the Bill use phrases such as "significant" and "unexpected". We will have to define those terms. The Deputy can take it that we are already working on the drafts. I am conscious that the Bill is before the Oireachtas and, as such, I am somewhat constrained. We will have draft guidelines available, probably next week, but what I will do about publishing them is a slightly different issue.