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

10:30 am

Ms Josephine Feehily:

It cannot. Those are currently before the Oireachtas. That was our approach with the information during January. We have also engaged with representative bodies for the elderly, community information centres and employers because they will all have to work with us in implementing this. We have done a lot of work behind the scenes to engage with relevant groups on this. We are now awaiting the passage of the amendment Bill. On that basis, we now expect to write to everyone in the second week in March, on or around 11 March. We will be writing to 1.6 million people.