Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 October 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. David Gunning:

I can explain. This was a misclassification of tax. Instead of operating using the relevant contracts tax, RCT, system, the development board at the time operated VAT. This was in the period from 2016 to the middle of 2018. During that period, the wrong tax system was being operated. It is important to say that exactly the same amount of money was paid by the development board to the Revenue Commissioners during that period.