Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 November 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production

9:00 am

Mr. Niall Cody:

I have a detailed note on this matter. I do not want to blame the OGP for not having a framework in place if it did for this contract. The framework expired on 31 January 2018. The contract went to tender in November 2017. There was a delay in the OGP framework being put in place. We could not pull down the contract because there was no contract in place. This accounted for some of the delay. When the OGP framework is put in place, we draw down from it. I am aware of recent commentary on this issue. In some cases, the OGP framework is not in place such that a temporary interim measure has to be put in place to deal with that.