Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Regarding the Deputy's first question, the figures I have available to me are very provisional because we are only approaching the end of February. For me to be able to give the Deputy an exact read on how I believe tax revenue for this year will decline on the basis of a disorderly Brexit is very difficult to do, but I will be in a position to do this when the ESRI has completed its work.

On the Deputy's second question, I reconfirm that with respect to the figures I gave him on the Revenue Commissioners having 400 staff in place by the end of March, we will deliver that and we will be in a place to quickly recruit a further 200 afterwards. From a preparedness point of view, while the events of Tuesday were very significant, we still have to plan for the worst. From a land acquisition and infrastructure perspective, we are on track to be as best prepared as we can be for the end of March.

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