Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 January 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Account of the Receipt of the Revenue of the State collected by the Revenue Commissioners 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 20 - Assessment and Collection of Local Property Tax
Chapter 21 - Revenues Tax Debt Warehousing Scheme
Chapter 22 - Corporation Tax Losses

9:30 am

Mr. Niall Cody:

I spoke about our investigation prosecution before the committee. The management division has staffing of approximately 12,000. Ms Kennedy has just shown me the figure of 12,058. Taking Rosslare as an example, before Brexit we had 18 allowance posts. They are available 24-7 because many of the ferries come in very early in the morning. That figure of 18 has now become 80. In 2019, we had a fairly significant recruitment because of Brexit. We made a business case to the Department of public expenditure on staffing for Brexit. We did a really successful recruitment in 2019 to get us ready for Brexit. However, it was a big challenge. There were IT systems to deal with that and there was a significant increase in customs receipts as a result of our closest trading partner leaving the Single Market.