Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 June 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Review of Medical Consultants' Tax Affairs
Chapter 14 - Research and Development Tax Credit
Chapter 16 - Deferral of Tobacco Stamp Liability

9:00 am

Photo of Shane CassellsShane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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I do. The significant drop in claimants at that point threw me. Notwithstanding that the figures for 2015 have not been finalised, in April 2017 there were 1,276 claims at a cost of €639 million, which is €200 million more than two years previous to that in spite of there being significantly fewer claims in 2015.