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

Ms Brenda McVeigh:

We certainly felt that the office should have been prepared for us before we moved in. There was a period when we knew the building that we were in was going to be demolished. We got very sudden notice, because we had pushed back against the exit date for a while, saying that until something was ready, we could not move. We kept pushing back until eventually we were told we were moving. That was it and when we got there, the weekend we moved in, the walls were still going up. There was certainly no furniture, no walls and no IT system. There was nothing when we moved in.