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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: Can the witnesses even dispute what the Deputy is saying?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: The Deputy is very definitely out of time. I have been very good to him.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: Today is focused on corporation tax. I have given the Deputy a lot of latitude-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: The witnesses will have to find a way to answer questions which cannot otherwise be answered because they may betray specific details about a specific company. What the Deputy raises is legitimate. The witnesses will need to find some way to provide the information to the committee without disclosing those details.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: I call Deputy Dara Calleary, who has been patient, and Deputy Burton.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: How does the co-operation of the company that Mr. Hession mentions manifest itself?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: The review was requested.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: A review was specifically requested on the corporation tax receipts of 2015 so I do not know if we can blame the officials.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: To contextualise it.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: Will the officials do that now?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: The members of the committee might be included.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: It would be terrific if the secretariat could be included as well.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: Who will take those questions?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: The committee will be issuing its report, overview and recommendations on the budgetary process before the budget.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: Is it on the website?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: The witnesses are going to do this and have committed to coming back with five year data. On top of that, Mr. McCarthy said in his opening statement that the Minister for Finance has asked Seamus Coffey, chairman of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, to undertake a review of the sustainability of corporation tax receipts, and that report is due to be submitted to the Minister at the end of...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: The parliamentary budget office might help us on this, whenever it is established. I thank all our witnesses for their attendance and contributions today.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)
John Lahart: I welcome the Environmental Pillar. The witnesses want to tax everything, which is really interesting. It is almost utopian from an environmental point of view. I am going play devil's advocate, if I may. Are coffee cups recyclable?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)
John Lahart: So they are recyclable.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)
John Lahart: That is okay.