Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 December 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports

9:30 am

Photo of Jennifer Carroll MacNeillJennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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Mr. Harrahill may be able to answer a more specific question for me. A 60-fold increase is an astonishing expansion in any walk of life, for the public sector or for private enterprise. How is Revenue managing that as an organisation? To get some more detail on what Mr. Cody outlined, are these customs entries the result of people ordering things online and having large numbers of small items? Is that the scale of what is happening in this regard? What is the efficiency in this context and is it possible to get any sense of what value is being captured for the State?