Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 July 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15: Local Property Tax
Chapter 16: Taxation of Rental Income
2014 Account of the Revenue Commissioners

10:00 am

Mr. Niall Cody:

To summarise, in 2012, when we started doing the planning, we had 58, although some of these people were partially involved and doing other things and some were involved in computer development. In 2013, we were at 202, in 2014, we were at 294 and we are now back at 248. Of that, we have had temporary clerical officers in over 2013, 2014 and 2015. In 2014, which was the biggest year, we had 149 full-time and 144 temporary staff. We are now getting to a stage where it has been mainstreamed. The temporary involvement is dropping. Our main LPT branch is in Ennis and then part of the Collector General's main office in Limerick is involved in some of the phone calls and phone service. Those are the kind of figures.