Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 November 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019

11:30 am

Mr. Niall Cody:

The SASP system is in place and we are probably one of the biggest beneficiaries of the SASP system. One can see that in our probation account and the Comptroller and Auditor General has outlined some of the figures. We realised €18.03 million in SASP in the 2019 accounts. The big change is that much of that relates to clearance in the UK that is payable here. We have already seen the change this year because of the impact of the pandemic, but we anticipate a significant reduction to the SASP money that we will receive next year.