Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 December 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report

1:00 pm

Ms Josephine Feehily:

Revenue never has enough resources, as Mr. Quigley will confirm. Revenue is always looking for resources. In the past six years our resources went down by about 14% in terms of head count but, more important, and I have said this before in the committee so it is not new, we lost a huge amount of corporate knowledge and experience in the past five or six years because there were various opportunities for people to leave, and some of the people I referred to in my opening statement who are retired.