Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 November 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022
Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions
Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
9:30 am
Mr. John Hogan:
The Minister is briefed on the Bill itself and the challenges that are around the Bill. He would have covered it in the recent oral parliamentary question, PQ, session, where he indicated that he was looking at the challenges around this legislation and how best to engage with it. He is aware of the background to the Bill.
One of the concerns is the UN database itself. Even the UN itself accepts that the database is probably incomplete. There are businesses that come on and come off it. There is a difficulty-----