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
Mr. John Hogan:
As I said earlier in response to another question, we keep tax schemes under fairly regular review. There had been some dialogue with the medical board of appeal on the scheme itself and how best to bring it forward. We are always conscious that in reviewing a scheme like this - as I said, this had been in existence since the 1960s - the nature of the parameters surrounding the scheme were quite tightly defined and that in essence-----