Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 May 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Finance
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2020
Chapter 16 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Audited Financial Statements of the Exchequer for 2020
9:30 am
Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent)
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The gap is growing for the vulnerable areas on the basis of the cost of living. The reduction in excise that Mr. Hogan mentioned had virtually no impact because fuel has not come down further in price. It is still at the rate it was. We have reduced VAT on goods such as coal and heating oil. That will have no impact, particularly in rural Ireland.