Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The Revenue Commissioners would have notified the Department of Finance, as is its due, to say that on the basis of the assessment of the more than 500,000 files it received, it would be in a position to collect €45 million. It was the responsibility of the Revenue Commissioners to collect that and that information was included formally and publically in the supporting documentation given by the Minister for Finance in the House on budget day.

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