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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: The biggest council is still cutting it to the bone.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Dr. Collins is more hopeful than I am.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: However, in fairness to councillors, when so many powers are removed from them, those powers that are left bear more weight than they otherwise would.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Issues that have come across our desk at the Committee of Public Accounts quite a bit are valuation and the questions of who should be doing valuations, when valuations should be done, who should be giving guidance, what the oversight should be and who should be responsible and follow-up if it goes wrong. I believe the Committee of Public Accounts cannot be responsible because it would...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: This seems to be a similar conversation to the cost-benefit analysis we do on particular projects. I refer to whether the time horizons are correct or the people undertaking them have the right sense of what is being asked of them. It seems that valuation sits into this area. It is hard to make decisions about anything if it is not felt there are enough data or that the correct data are...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: At the beginning of this Dáil, we did a session on talking to representatives of other PBO-style organisations and budgetary oversight groups. We certainly got the impression that there is much more information available to some groups than we have here. Regarding the capital acquisitions tax, and perhaps inheritance tax, considering that I just outlined we have done some work on...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Or on inheritance tax?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I presume it is a politically difficult conversation to have in every country.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: It is not done by lump sum, but by-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Okay.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Regarding the commission itself, and I notice our members are starting to return, should we have a commission on taxation operating more often? For example, should it be at intervals such as 2008 and then 2022, or should it be a standing commission?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: God help us all.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: It was 1985-1986, then 2008-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Okay.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I thank Dr. Collins. I call Dr. Healy.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: The inference here is that if such commissions were held at a five-year intervals, it would be possible to set out terms of reference and a mode of operating that would take some of this-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: When we did the report on indexation here, one of the clearest lessons learned was the link between tax and welfare.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I thank Dr. Healy. That is interesting. I call Dr. Collins.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Okay. That is very interesting. I call Deputy Durkan.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I will ask the witnesses if they would like to comment.