Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 February 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 23 - Revenue Collection
Chapter 24 - Management of Revenue Debt
Chapter 25 - Taxpayer Compliance
Chapter 26 - Corporation Tax Losses
Chapter 27 - Tax Audit Settlements

11:00 am

Ms Josephine Feehily:

If one were to take this particular piece of debt and track it through one would find 90% of it will have been collected. This is the point I wish to make. It gets collected. At a point in time snapshot there will always be debt under enforcement, under instalment and which we have not yet got to, but every day when the debt management teams come to work they get to a new tranche of cases which they examine and challenge and we collect a very large amount of it. It gets collected.