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:

There is another bit to go on the tale. Once the legislation was brought in, we did a detailed analysis of the sector to see and establish if there was overcompensation in the sector. We have sent our report to the Minister for Finance. It is now with the Minister and he has to consider. I am not 100% certain of this but I think it would have come up in the context of the Finance Bill, and he acknowledged that he had received the report from us. Again, his office and officials are considering it. There will need to be a specific provision for the sector, namely, unregistered farmers in the poultry industry. The poultry industry is interesting in that day-old chicks are hired out, nearly-----