Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 June 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding
9:30 am
Ms Katherine Licken:
When we were discussing the VAT rate generally both with the sector and with the Department of Finance, which is the body responsible for VAT, not our Department, we would have looked at all scenarios in terms of supporting the sector. In the end, the Minister for Finance agreed to an extension of the 9% VAT rate until the end of August.