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
11:50 am
Ms Josephine Feehily:
The discussion that took place about taxation of child benefit principally took place within the expert group on which Revenue is represented. I can say that I would have conveyed to officials in places like the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Finance that in the context of taking on this particular project, if they had any other projects they wanted us to do at the same time, I would want lots of notice and lots of resources. Revenue tends not to say we cannot do things. Once we have clarity about what has to be done and with enough time and some resources, we can do a lot of things. I can see how people might interpret it another way.