Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 July 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission
Chapter 14 - Management of Tax Appeals

9:30 am

Ms Marie-Claire Maney:

I understand that was back in 2018, before my tenure. I understand it is completely unusable and has been written off in previous accounts. I am absolutely confident the new system will be fully functional and will provide the specification we need. That is why we set up a governance team with a representative of Revenue. We have had great assistance from the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer, OGCIO, and I compliment Mr. Barry Lowry. It is a fantastic organisation. We also got a proper business analyst, at a cost of €28,000, which I believed was really important to get that specification right. That has helped us do the tender specification and we have now got sanction from the digital oversight unit. We have had full consultation with Revenue, because we want the systems to interact between the two organisations, and we have had a system fully costed and specified. We are getting assistance-----