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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Mr. Carrigan for his very detailed briefing. I am aware that we have agreed a timeframe and the purpose of Mr. Carrigan's presentation was to provide us with information. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, will be coming before the joint committee on Wednesday at 9.30 a.m. prior to the ECOFIN meeting that is due to take place on Friday next. If we want to discuss...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I apologise for interrupting, but I must to leave the meeting. Deputy Kieran O'Donnell will take the Chair in my absence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: We will now deal with No. 10 on today's agenda, scrutiny of COM (2013) 520. This is a proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and the Council establishing uniform rules and a uniform procedure for the resolution of credit institutions and certain investment firms in the framework of a single resolution mechanism and a single bank resolution fund and amending Regulation EU...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The legislation says that if an arrangement has been entered into, the payment does not fall due on 1 January. The legislation facilitates a situation where a credit card or debit card can be used and it can be drawn upon at a later date.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Either there is a data concern which can be tidied up or there is an issue of systems codes that need to be put in place. It is not a legislative issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Or a systems issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Ms Feehily for her attendance and also Ms Dempsey and Mr. Gladney. It has been a lengthy and lively discussion. I assure Ms Feehily that I will not ask her to appear every couple of months. She does a very good job and she is a busy woman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I will suspend the meeting to allow the witnesses to take their seats for the next part of the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: As I move to wrap up this matter I want to clear up one other issue. Have there been any situations in which a single direct debit has been issued to the Revenue Commissioners that was taken out before 21 March?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I have received communication to the effect that it has been indicated that this has happened. I am not saying that it has happened but it has been indicated to me and I was asked to bring it to Ms Feehily’s attention.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: People sometimes do that on ballot sheets too.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: At the conclusion of the meeting I will have a word with Ms Feehily because I do not want to create any undue concern. I thank Ms Feehily and her officers for coming before the committee at such short notice and for the spirit in which they engaged with us. The Revenue Commissioners are not accountable to Government. They are independent. The structure of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Before I wrap up I have one or two points to make. There is a designated telephone line for Members to contact the Revenue Commissioners. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Therefore, it is common practice for Members to be in contact with the Revenue Commissioners on an ongoing basis with regard to constituency tax difficulties. Is that not so?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Therefore, engagement between parliamentarians and the Revenue Commissioners is nothing new.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I will move towards the wrap-up and take single questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The point is made, Deputy. I thank the Deputy for raising that, because in a previous occupation I worked as a literacy organiser. I am pleased that Deputy Boyd Barrett brought up the matter because the concept of plain English is an important issue for any Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I can answer that. It is in section 38(1)(c) of the Act. That is where it comes from.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: That is the legislation. Perhaps Ms Feehily wishes to answer the question. Deputies Spring, O'Donnell and Mathews have questions as well.