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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)
John McGuinness: Has Mr. Cody determined where increases in staff might occur and what the cost to the organisation might be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)
John McGuinness: How much, generally, is Revenue is investing in the analysis of the various scenarios to do with Brexit? If Revenue was doing Brexit today, somebody else would have to do Mr. Cody's job.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)
John McGuinness: That is fine if we are getting more for less.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)
John McGuinness: That would not work.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)
John McGuinness: Do the nine people comes out of Revenue's current staffing resource?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)
John McGuinness: Is the Brexit cost to the organisation Mr. Colgan plus nine staff?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)
John McGuinness: So 20 equivalent permanent staff are dedicated to Brexit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)
John McGuinness: That is the cost to Revenue as it scales up. It has gone from zero to ten staff and it will increase as demand requires.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)
John McGuinness: I am trying to get at the impact on Revenue in the context of staff and scaling up and so on. As we get into Brexit, the organisation has scaled up to ten staff and will continue to scale up. Has Mr. Cody any idea of the numbers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)
John McGuinness: Will it depend on the problems that arise?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)
John McGuinness: That is what I was coming to. Mr. Cody was making the distinction between chasing the address or chasing the guy who is laundering diesel. Revenue will have to have significant personnel on the ground to deal with all these issues such as the examination and clearance of a truck and so on. The potential cost to Revenue, therefore, is significant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)
John McGuinness: Revenue does not have to populate those areas and more again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)
John McGuinness: If someone is dealing with the clearance of a truck, whether it is groupage or a single lot from a company, Revenue will have to form a relationship with the company, which requires manpower. The organisation can have all the technology it wants.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)
John McGuinness: It is not the computer that catches people; it is the examination.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)
John McGuinness: He was thrown in at the deep end.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)
John McGuinness: Is there a Brexit line in Revenue's budget for this year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)
John McGuinness: The organisation has scaled up and it has its ten staff in, but somebody else has to do Mr. Colgan's job. Are the other nine members of his team coming from within the organisation or are they new recruits?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)
John McGuinness: Yes. However, are the ten staff from the system?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)
John McGuinness: Let me give an example of a haulier who has a truck going to France via the Border. Mr. Cody has outlined the role of Revenue at the Border. What will happen when this truck crosses into Northern Ireland, travels to England and crosses to France? Could Mr. Cody say how many checks a truck would have to undergo on that journey?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2017)
John McGuinness: Would it have been checked once?