Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 10 December 2019
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Supplementary)
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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This is a final settlement with the airlines. What any citizen chooses to do is his or her business. That is if they want to challenge it. The tax was levied at that point with the understanding that it was legal. In the settlement we reached, there is no admission by the State that the tax at any point was illegal.