Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 22 January 2019
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures: Discussion
Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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Do I take it, from what Ms Donaghy said, that it is like the old argument about GDP, that revenue forgone is the internationally accepted norm and standard and that any other way of doing this then becomes highly subjective as to the information on which one relies to make one's analysis - in other words, that the only real bog-standard, acceptable, across-the-board way to keep the comparison standard between most countries is revenue forgone?