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:

I will double check it for the Deputy but my understanding is that we can have two lower VAT rates but we cannot have another one. We could change it to another rate but we could not introduce a third one.