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Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: Neither would I.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: We are directly responsible for these two tax numbers. What I am finding hard to understand is that in the course of that investigation, when Mr. Kelly is talking to these two heads, would he have got P35s and reconciled wages with them to see if there was a discrepancy? Were there unvouched wages that tax has not been paid on?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: When Mr. Kelly says that the audit found that the Garda restaurant and shop were compliant in the payment of payroll taxes, is he saying the bar was also compliant?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: It still has a balance of €417,000.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: For a bar that does not open that often, that does not make sense.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: To expand on that, can Mr. Kelly give me assurance that the returns are up to date for those tax heads? If he was doing an interim report, I would imagine he would have asked for this.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: I want to be respectful here but perhaps there is a huge difference in how auditing is done in the public sector. I know that potentially internal audits might not be as robust. On taxation, I would have thought that, for argument's sake, that if one was doing an interim audit, one would get a statement from Revenue for each of those tax numbers. It is a very simple thing. It takes about...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: That looks worse for him. I cannot understand this. We have an internal report. We are hanging our hat on the major discrepancies in accounts, the major balances where the private accountant said there was concern regarding cash, and we do not have a statement from the Revenue Commissioners as part of our audit work. Is that not an unbelievable set of events for an internal auditor?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: Is Revenue not a big ticket item?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: But it is upholding the law?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Peter Burke: It is critical that there is compliance with Revenue, if compliance and a standard is set for the public. Payment of all is one of the most important issues to be assured. We are talking about over €400,000 that accumulated in the bar. As we know, VAT is a transaction tax. To amass that type of money over the years suggests there was a significant level of turnover. As a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme Review (1 Jun 2017)

Peter Burke: 18. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the review of the capital plan will occur; and if key preliminary projects will be prioritised such as the extension of the N4 from Mullingar to Rooskey and the provision of a motorway serving County Longford and the north west. [26100/17]

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Review of Medical Consultants' Tax Affairs
Chapter 14 - Research and Development Tax Credit
Chapter 16 - Deferral of Tobacco Stamp Liability (1 Jun 2017)

Peter Burke: I thank all the witnesses for their attendance. I want to have a look at the Revenue Commissioners' headline results for 2016 as given in the three-page document that summarises the yields and various interventions and puts numbers behind the majority of them. In respect of audit compliance, there have been about 537,000 interventions. The average yield, if we were to be as crude as that,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Review of Medical Consultants' Tax Affairs
Chapter 14 - Research and Development Tax Credit
Chapter 16 - Deferral of Tobacco Stamp Liability (1 Jun 2017)

Peter Burke: Are the aspect queries very fruitful for Revenue in terms of the resources that have to be put into them? Could Mr. Cody explain the process by which they are selected? I imagine Revenue has improved an awful lot in terms of assessing the balances on VAT and PAYE control accounts and matching them to their returns after the period end. If there are any differences, obviously they are...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Review of Medical Consultants' Tax Affairs
Chapter 14 - Research and Development Tax Credit
Chapter 16 - Deferral of Tobacco Stamp Liability (1 Jun 2017)

Peter Burke: That would involve making an appropriate call in that context. Between 2015 and 2016, incidents of instalment arrangements seem to have gone up from approximately 8,500 to almost 11,000. The actual value of debt under arrangements did not increase significantly, but is there any reason for the increase in the number of instalment arrangements?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Review of Medical Consultants' Tax Affairs
Chapter 14 - Research and Development Tax Credit
Chapter 16 - Deferral of Tobacco Stamp Liability (1 Jun 2017)

Peter Burke: With regard to the online system, what incidence is there of people completing form 11 and form 12 online? I imagine the vast majority are at this stage. Do we still accept paper copies?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Review of Medical Consultants' Tax Affairs
Chapter 14 - Research and Development Tax Credit
Chapter 16 - Deferral of Tobacco Stamp Liability (1 Jun 2017)

Peter Burke: If someone is in a poor area for broadband, for example.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Review of Medical Consultants' Tax Affairs
Chapter 14 - Research and Development Tax Credit
Chapter 16 - Deferral of Tobacco Stamp Liability (1 Jun 2017)

Peter Burke: I have a few questions on the Exchequer receipts. I will obviously be careful to deal with administration questions. Corporation tax continues to pull ahead, and going back to 2014 and then looking at the picture in 2016, the increase still seems very strong. How solid is that? I know Mr. Cody wrote to the Minister for Finance last year, saying he did not expect all but 300 million of it...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Review of Medical Consultants' Tax Affairs
Chapter 14 - Research and Development Tax Credit
Chapter 16 - Deferral of Tobacco Stamp Liability (1 Jun 2017)

Peter Burke: What is that in money terms? As a ballpark figure, is it €6 billion-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Review of Medical Consultants' Tax Affairs
Chapter 14 - Research and Development Tax Credit
Chapter 16 - Deferral of Tobacco Stamp Liability (1 Jun 2017)

Peter Burke: The witness might perhaps, in due course, send on the report that is published.