Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 June 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 9 - Internal Controls in the Tax Appeals Commission
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission

9:00 am

Mr. Mark O'Mahony:

We learned that the governance systems we inherited required a fairly drastic overhaul. We have done everything we can in that regard and we have addressed most of the issues highlighted by the Comptroller and Auditor General. We updated our overtime policy in February 2017 and again in June 2017 to make explicit reference to circular 14/2014, which is the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform guidelines on overtime. We took a step back and created a work environment where overtime does not take place. We are managing things so that nobody has to work overtime unless it is absolutely extraordinary and unusual and there have not been any overtime claims.