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:
Again, in terms of when the betting duty is transferred into the Exchequer, and so much of it goes to the horse and greyhound industry, is not a matter for ourselves. It is an amount that is the betting fund distributed on that basis.
We have no role in how the tax is distributed. It is not an attempt to say this money came from betting on horse racing and that has to be identified because it goes to horse racing. We just collect and transfer the full betting duty to the Exchequer.