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Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (13 Jul 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 132. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the resumption of daycare services for older persons. [37507/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (13 Jul 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Covid-19 vaccination roll-out programme. [37506/21]

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I will speak briefly before we finish discussing the Bill. It is apt to mention that, since we last debated it, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County has approved the tender for the largest affordable housing site in the country. It will be 9 ha of social, affordable and cost-rental housing. I have spoken about it previously, but the debate on the Bill is an appropriate place to raise it...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Jul 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I thank the Minister for taking this question. Is he aware that some parents have not received child benefit payments this month? I have received several reports of child benefit payments for children aged 16 being suspended. Before the onset of Covid-19, parents were required to have a form stamped by school authorities confirming that their child was proceeding into fourth or fifth year....

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)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome Ms Maney and Mr. O'Keeffe. I welcome Ms Maney to her role, which is new enough, and commend her on the work she has undertaken in a short period. She took over at a very difficult time and from reading her report and the other information given to us, particularly around case management conferences and hearings that were re-established during the height of the pandemic, it was...

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)

Cormac Devlin: A percentage of cases are heard via case management conference. What percentage of the cases dealt with by the commission are progressed 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)

Cormac Devlin: Ms Maney might come back to us with that, out of interest. In terms of an appellant making a decision on whether to appeal the assessment from Revenue, 44% of cases were withdrawn by the appellants. If more information was given by Revenue at an earlier stage, would it change the course of an appellant bringing a case? What is the experience with appellants not of Ms Maney but of the...

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)

Cormac Devlin: I understand. I know it is straying into the arena of the Revenue Commissioners.

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)

Cormac Devlin: The committee has dealt with the Revenue Commissioners previously. From our perspective we are trying to understand the interaction between the TAC and Revenue and trying to make a recommendation for improvements. In a bizarre way, although many witnesses do not believe it, the Committee of Public Accounts is here to help. In terms of the supply of information from Revenue to the appellant...

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)

Cormac Devlin: We might follow up on this with the Department when it comes before us next. An appellant has 30 days from the time of Revenue's assessment. Is this sufficient time? Does the commission find that people are rushed? It could come out of the blue for some. I am speaking about individuals rather than the corporate side.

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)

Cormac Devlin: Equally for the corporate side there might be the same concern. Does Ms Maney think 30 days is sufficient? Is it longer in the UK?

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

Cormac Devlin: That is all right.

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

Cormac Devlin: I stand to be corrected but I believe in the UK it could be 60 days before a decision has to be taken by a prospective appellant. To turn to the TAC itself, I note there was an underspend because staff could not be taken on. How is the commission getting on with this? Earlier, Ms Maney said there were four commissioners. There was an underspend because of non-recruitment. Is it just...

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)

Cormac Devlin: First, I want to give apologies from Deputies MacSharry and McAuliffe, please. I must also go to another committee meeting after this. I wish to return to a few items. Out of the legacy cases that have been outstanding for some time, am I correct that 12 are still outstanding?

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)

Cormac Devlin: The commission is making progress and, as Ms Maney says, by the end of the year it should be complete.

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)

Cormac Devlin: I was a bit confused by chapter 14 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report which said that at the end of 2019 there were 3,357 open appeal cases. It said that in the period of 2016 to 2019, the commission closed over 3,900 appeal cases. How many cases since 2016, when the commission was established, has it dealt with overall? Does Ms Maney have that figure?

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)

Cormac Devlin: I wanted to clarify that. I missed the earlier discussion. I refer to the length of time between an appellant deciding to take a case and the case being heard by the commission. What is the average waiting time for that process?

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)

Cormac Devlin: What is the internal desire to deal with cases?

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)

Cormac Devlin: Am I not correct in saying that for appellants there are interests and penalties charged? In theory, they are paying for that delay or the length of time it takes. If the appeal is found in the appellant's favour, it is unfair if he or she has to pay penalties because of a delay.

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)

Cormac Devlin: I can appreciate that. The UK system is further down the road than us and has far more experience. I am speaking for individuals and not the corporate world. People who might not have the wherewithal to be able to pay money until a determination has been made are lumbered with further penalties and interest on the sum that Revenue makes. That is a recommendation that the committee will...