Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 December 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement

Mr. Niall Cody:

We will need significant investment in our technology. I believe we will need it all. The reality is that the Revenue online system, which was groundbreaking, is 22 years old in technology. That would have been, and still is, world leading. It has been upgraded. Things have been done to it but basically the Revenue online system in the context of technology systems is an old-age pensioner. We have investment plans over the next number of years. We have always received great support from the Departments of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform but the reality is this is a multi-year project. The challenge is that we cannot do two years and then have a break. This is a constant. We also have to implement every year's budget changes and finance Bill changes as well. We use opportunities to do elements of our technology refresh as we are implementing schemes or changes in the budget.