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 Alan DillonAlan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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I understand that. I am trying to figure out the amount of correspondence that Revenue has had with multiple employers, in the early exchanges, to make them aware of their eligibility, which we all understand was self-assessed and administered by Revenue. How many cases have been escalated by Revenue to an investigation? Is it anticipated that the number will continue to increase as we move out of restrictions? Certainly the restrictions have been removed from a number of sectors. However, we see currently on the employment wage subsidy scheme, EWSS, that across various sectors there is still a really high number of employers and employees who are still claiming benefits.