Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 October 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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We will publish this. It will be followed up. We will return to it specifically when we recast the schedule. We will ask for target dates for having the matter concluded. That may not happen because every one of the people affected can go to court at the end of the process, if they like. That is not within anyone's control.

We found a lacuna in the information between the Tax Appeals Commissioner and the Revenue Commissioners. We asked the Revenue Commissioners, when its representatives were in, about cases that went to the Tax Appeals Commission and the collection rate in that regard. Neither of them completed what was sought. The Revenue Commissioners say they just get told by the Tax Appeals Commission what the figure is, and there is no match-up regarding the original Revenue Commissioners estimate. We have found another lacuna. Am I right that there was a gap?