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

Mr. Niall Cody:

I found the request strange. The last time I appeared before the committee, there was an inquiry in respect of the various chapters of the Revenue account. At the end of the meeting, I was asked a couple of questions about self-assessment and bogus misclassification issues. The committee then had a separate hearing with an individual. We were not involved in that meeting. There was no subsequent follow-up discussion with us. A series of recommendations came as a result of a discussion that did not include representatives from the Department of Social Protection, which is the primary body in respect of PRSI rates, or the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, which has primary responsibility for employment rights. A series of recommendations were made and-----