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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: I hope to, yes. For the benefit of people watching the meeting, the layout looks a bit different. There are extra items showing the names of people closer to where-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will work on that in the next couple of minutes-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: -----and we will see how we get on. No. 2389Adated 17 September 2019 from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is a briefing note for today's meeting on the financial position of Bord na gCon in 2018. Category B is correspondence from Accounting Officers and-or Ministers and follow up to PAC meetings, and other items for publishing. The first item under this category is No....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is agreed, but the correspondence-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Of the-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: I think he called it a communication. We will see the format of that and ask for a copy of it when it is received from the Department or the HEA. That is agreed. There is an issue that we want this dealt with across the public sector generally but the specific issue we highlighted was third level education, so we will stick to that rather than broaden it across every Department and State...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will publish it, and the Deputy is free to come back on it again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: I do not have to suggest that to the Deputy. That is agreed. Next is No. 2320B from Mr. Fergal Lynch, Secretary General, Department of Children and Youth Affairs, dated 11 July 2019, providing a further note as requested by the committee relating to our meeting on 19 June 2019. It includes details of funding family resource centres and childcare facilities under the national childcare...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will ask them if they can give the category in the next update. In earlier reports, there were some income tax or capital gains tax cases. All the big cases now are to do with corporation tax, certainly in the latest two reports we received, which says something in its own right, and the figures involved are massive. I suspect they must be multinationals of some description to be...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Was it the interpretation of legislation?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: I would say that most of them are.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: I suspect, for most of these, the company believes they are doing what is right, the Revenue or Tax Appeals Commission has a different opinion and there is legal interpretation. Maybe the Comptroller and Auditor General might-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes. We will ask how many of them are based on interpretation of legislation, rather than mistakes. If they can identify the sector, then well and good.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: It could be property, pharma or IT. We do not know the sector but it would be interesting to start to see that. What I can say about the trends, the amounts outstanding in the Tax Appeals Commission, only about two years ago it was just over €1 billion, between €1.3 billion and €1.6 billion, and it jumped to €3 billion very quickly. There is a handful of massive...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: No. I think they said they do not know. They have no information on the enforcement procedures in the other EU countries. They do not know. It is something that the Irish Road Haulage Association can take up through its European associates. There must be associations at an EU level for road haulage because I am sure there are issues that are not just specific to Ireland. Perhaps that is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Under which Department's aegis is the Valuation Office?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Murphy mentioned car parking. People pay to park on a main street but not if they are in a shopping centre. That is a simple question. If anyone here has the answer, I ask them to tell me what it is. Are rates charged on car parks outside-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: I ask for a note on that. Some of the major multiples have large car parking spaces. That is not free; they pay to build car parks in order to attract customers but customers do not have to pay for parking while they are there. I suspect that must be included in the rateable part of the property.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)
Seán Fleming: I suspect it should be. It would be crazy if it was not because it is part of the commercial premises. . Deputy Catherine Murphy:I am using it as an example. How is it modelled? I may be wrong in my description. If people understand the process, it is much easier to accept a revaluation. There is an absence of that type of information.