Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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If the Deputy wants to reduce it to the understandable paradigm of the average person on the street, I think that if the average person on the street had a difficulty or their tax affairs were not in order, they would have a reasonable expectation they would be answering to the Revenue Commissioners about it and not to the Deputy. They would be dealing with it in private with the Revenue Commissioners. There is a real and important division of power and responsibility here that it is worth making the case for. Whether you are a large company, a small company or an individual taxpayer, your tax affairs have a degree of confidentiality, it is the tax collector that you are accountable to for them, and most of that happens in private. We will have to agree to disagree-----