Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 January 2019

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion

Mr. Joe Cullen:

There is no issue in principle with going down that road. There are data gaps and we do not always have up-to-date information. For example, the most recent data on the cost of pension relief was published in 2015. Subject to a number of caveats, I would not see any difficulty in principle with this in the context of preparing the Estimates in the future. The difficulty is that once a figure out there, people tend to remember it, regardless of how-----