Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 June 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts

10:30 am

Ms Geraldine Tallon:

We estimated that there were 1.6 million households eligible to pay the household charge. We did not know what the position would be in terms of the numbers that would apply for a waiver. Our target was roughly €160 million, if there was full compliance.