Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

The Revenue Commissioners require the insurance companies to have PPS numbers to make tax credits to individuals. The Bill refers to "all reasonable efforts". In other words, we are asking them to do only what is reasonable. Clearly, the Revenue Commissioners require the PPS number to be able to allocate the tax credit to the individual company. This would be a cop-out. The words "reasonable effort" are included in the Bill.

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