Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 September 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018: Nevin Economic Research Institute, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Irish Tax Institute and Chambers Ireland

9:00 am

Ms Cora O'Brien:

We would need more visibility of the revenue data. Anybody who was examining that as an exercise would have to see the underlying individual companies and what the IP was. There is top-line data here, but the exercise on how much would be saved is difficult to carry out with only top-line data.