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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: That is the market value of the seizures made.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: No, definitely not.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The vast majority would be destroyed.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The vast majority would be. There could be items such as drugs, alcohol and cigarettes and they would be disposed of.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I do not know how cigarettes and those items are disposed of, but I can find out for the Deputy.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: That is why the goods are disposed of, due to concerns regarding the health standards involved in some of the items.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: We have a parcel division within Revenue that exists within the frontier management unit of Revenue. It monitors the volume of parcels coming in. It is fair to say that this is a growing area of policy focus. At EU and national levels, there is a far higher level of awareness of the volume of packages and parcels now coming into the EU, what the value of them is and whether we have the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Is that from a parcels point of view?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: It would be subject to the agreement we have now in the aftermath of Brexit.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Is that in regard to parcels, in particular?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I would imagine we have. Well, I am sure we have but I imagine they are minor enough. One of the issues we have had to deal with in the aftermath of Brexit is the parcel deliveries that go backwards and forwards from the UK. A lot of it is about customs declarations and making sure customs has been paid on the items being received.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank Deputy McGreehan for that. My officials and I are not aware of any particular customs or systems error that developed during last year but as the Deputy has fairly said, it can happen in any good organisation. If an issue did develop, I expect Revenue would be open enough to acknowledge if an error happened in its work and the taxpayer should not pay for it. I expect this is the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank Deputy Timmins. The information the Deputy has is the full amount of information publicly available and is the basis on which we present the Revised Estimates to the Oireachtas. If the Deputy has any questions regarding a particular line or any work contained within it, please let me know and we can give him more information on it. I will bear in mind the Deputy's suspicion...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I cannot tell the committee how much of it relates to RTÉ and bringing RTÉ under the C and AG's responsibility - which I assume must be one of the three questions Deputy Brennan raised with me earlier on which I should have thought of. The reason for this is the level of staffing and funding must be agreed between the Department of public expenditure and the C and AG and then we...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: No, that would just be our own staff. We would not be paying for Commission staff. They are employed from Presidency to Presidency. They are permanently employed by the Commission and will be available for all Presidencies. This figure refers to our own staff in several different locations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Economy in the Year to Date: Minister for Finance (28 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Cathaoirleach for the opportunity to attend a meeting of the committee to discuss Ireland’s economic performance. The global trade environment we now face looks very different from what we became accustomed to in recent decades. It is one increasingly characterised by economic fragmentation, polarisation and self-reliance. This is very different from the old norm of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Economy in the Year to Date: Minister for Finance (28 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I do not know the answer to whether the companies were directly or indirectly involved in the occupied territories. I can find that out for the Deputy. I know what the companies are. I think that information was supplied in the written answer the committee received. It should be emphasised that the overall value, as the Deputy said, of the investment in the occupied territories is now...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Economy in the Year to Date: Minister for Finance (28 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I respectfully disagree with Dr. Regan. I considered his analysis and saw the reports on it. I said earlier to the Deputy, when I made the case again, that in my experience the vast majority of IP that is located here is here due to people, history and the substance located here. Regarding the risks that Dr. Regan is flagging, I accept some of the points he has made. I have been making...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Economy in the Year to Date: Minister for Finance (28 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy for his question. There are always projects ready to go which need funding. Whether they are delayed or not depends on one's perspective. Every single State body will have projects that it wants to deliver for which it needs funding. State bodies have to make the case to the Government for that funding. I know the Deputy is not suggesting that every single project...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Economy in the Year to Date: Minister for Finance (28 May 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I have a very high level of confidence that all that can be done to meet the targets, while assisting our economy in still growing, is being done. I can see a gigantic amount of activity under way. Meeting the targets will be extremely challenging and difficult. Many countries will struggle to meet them but we face a particular challenge due to the features within our economy. In terms...