John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)

I understand that but I must explain to the Deputy that when Revenue comes before the Committee of Public Accounts, one will not meet a better organisation for explaining itself. It has been explained many times to me as a businessman, to the Committee of Public Accounts and to everybody else in business, that if a person has difficulty with paying taxes, the Revenue does not just drop on one's house overnight; it is normally a build-up over a period of time——

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