Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 January 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance

10:00 am

Mr. Derek Moran:

I must challenge that. It is a regular item on the management team's agenda and is dealt with on a whole-of-Department basis. This is meant to draw the strands of everything that is happening across the Government together in one place. The Deputy is right, in that this has implications for financial services, taxation, our Border and customs. Departmentally, people are engaged in it. The expertise resides within the divisions. We co-ordinate that into a single piece-----