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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: There may be some value in properly interrogating the cost rental model from a value for money perspective. The €1,200 per month rent for the cost rental homes is on the last page of that information, which I believe is the Enniskerry Road project. One of the things I am not at all clear about is whether the new system is going to have some profit element to it. I do not believe the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I am trying to imagine a situation where somebody is a tenant. I completely acknowledge that €1,200 per month is very significantly less than €2,000 per month, but my understanding of cost rental is it would be a mix of people, including individuals on the housing lists. If it is going to include both, it would require quite a bit of subsidy from the public side, probably...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I am okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I will add to that, Chairman. I would be agreeable to that suggestion. This was quite controversial at the time. There was only one bid at the end and there were question marks, first of all, about who would own the asset at the end. The second issue was the ability of the entity actually to deliver because its experience had been more on the financial side than delivery on the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: It is useful correspondence. It is comprehensive and contains some good information, including on the issue of test centres and the strategy in that regard. I have picked out two matters in particular, the first of which is the DART interconnector. In 2015 or thereabouts, it was brought to railway order level, which meant that all of the detailed work had been done. A significant amount...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: May I make a point before we move on, Chairman?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: The issue about civil legal aid relates to the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC. There is a difficulty in that the Free Legal Advice Centres, FLAC, have responsibility only for providing free legal aid in family law cases. There is no provision for legal aid in the case of people taking cases to bodies like the WRC. Last year, there was a significant increase in the number of people who...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission
Chapter 14 - Management of Tax Appeals (8 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I welcome the witnesses to the meeting. Ms Maney's presentation is very different from the one we received when representatives of the Tax Appeals Commission appeared in front of the previous Committee of Public Accounts. It was a very memorable meeting for the chaos that was presented. Many of the things that have happened since then represent a positive change. I compliment Ms Maney on...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission
Chapter 14 - Management of Tax Appeals (8 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I thank Ms Maney. She might try to keep her responses a little shorter because I have several questions to get through and time is tight. All ten of the big cases relate to corporation tax. What range of corporation tax dominates the rest of the cases, or does that relate predominantly to the bigger ones?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission
Chapter 14 - Management of Tax Appeals (8 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: On the other taxes that feature, what is the next category after corporation tax?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission
Chapter 14 - Management of Tax Appeals (8 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: The commission has a relatively small staff. When it gets through the caseload, it will become more manageable, and, as Ms Maney told us, it is a different structure. She stated that the commission brought in some additional legal staff. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission
Chapter 14 - Management of Tax Appeals (8 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I might stop Ms Maney there in order that we can push on with this. Are the legal staff employed on a temporary, contract basis or daily basis, for example? What is the basis for their employment and what is the cost in that regard?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission
Chapter 14 - Management of Tax Appeals (8 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Does the commission intend to move away from that to a more permanent-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission
Chapter 14 - Management of Tax Appeals (8 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: The commission had a case management system configured to its requirements. It appears a great deal of effort went into providing it but it did not function as it was intended. The commission dispensed with it and is now using a system that was built in-house. It has now sanction to purchase another case management system. How confident is Ms Maney that the new case management system will...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission
Chapter 14 - Management of Tax Appeals (8 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: I might stop Ms Maney there because I have limited time. What has the commission spent to date on the case management system?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission
Chapter 14 - Management of Tax Appeals (8 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: That is the figure for the new system but I refer to the total figure, right from the word go.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission
Chapter 14 - Management of Tax Appeals (8 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: How much was spent in total on the previous system?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission
Chapter 14 - Management of Tax Appeals (8 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Will Ms Maney revert to the committee with a note?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission
Chapter 14 - Management of Tax Appeals (8 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: Was there any attempt to go back to the people from whom the commission purchased the system to retrieve any funding?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission
Chapter 14 - Management of Tax Appeals (8 Jul 2021)

Catherine Murphy: What platform is the commission using at the moment?