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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Which ones.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Yes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: We are trying to get some oversight, I guess. Sticking on this issue-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: No, I get that. We discussed this aspect at the Committee of Public Accounts recently, when I asked a similar question. A certain percentage of measures have never been reviewed. I got a similar answer on that occasion, in respect of certain packages being reviewed during the budget process. On the flip side of that, however, some of the briefing we have been given is that a proper review...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Would anybody like to take a guess?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: The one for the film industry requires training. This is similar to a planning permission that requires local employment. It has a clause that we might not see in other tax expenditures. Is there a more comprehensive review of how it is working? Unlike direct expenditure, there is no performance budgeting for tax expenditure. The committee spends a lot of time speaking about equality...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Is the Department of Finance aware of the issue in terms of the difficulty of performance testing?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: That is very welcome.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: That is encouraging. I suspect with the Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity, one of the suggestions will be to broaden away from monetary evaluation. I do not think it will end at green budgeting. Tax expenditures often benefit people who pay sufficient tax to take advantage of them. I suspect equality budgeting will also be quite challenging. I want to continue to discuss how exactly...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I am interested in information on this. Where measures interact with EU requirements on auditing sometimes that auditing can be less and sometimes more than our own. I am interested to know whether we are coming up to the level required. In this case, we have not reviewed it.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Where there is an EU component to a tax expenditure, are there particular requirements for audit?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Either funding or a policy initiative from the EU.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: It is direct expenditure.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I would have expected that the EU would require relatively stringent reporting on how the component it provides interacts with others. If it does not, I would be interested to know.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Yes, or if it is something that comes up for Revenue or other Departments.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: It does make sense. I thank Ms. O'Callaghan. I want to go back to the film relief. I was perusing the numbers. This is a minor detail in the greater scheme of things but I noticed a noteworthy change was made between 2019 and 2020. The expenditure went from €1.3 million to €2.2 million but the number of people or groups in receipt of the tax expenditures went from 41 to...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: I know there would be variations in the numbers. This was the only one I could find that had such a marked change.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: That is confusing.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Is that detail on those numbers set out anywhere?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Are the flat, or unchanged, numbers available anywhere?