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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: The elements that make this up are office equipment and external IT services, consultancy, value for money and policy reviews, motor vehicles and frontier management expenses.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: We can certainly share this is if the Deputy does not have it. For office equipment and external IT services, it is just under €6.3 million and for consultancy, value for money reviews and policy reviews, it is just under €2.5 million. With regard to motor vehicles and frontier management, Revenue incurred additional costs of €2.55 million due to unforeseen additional...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: There are also preparatory works on the seized MV Shingleto facilitate its transfer to a new berthing bay.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: It was not allocated at the time. Funding was not previously provided during the 2023 Estimates due to uncertainty about costs at that time. The planning and tendering process was ongoing. It was always the intention that it would be allocated once there was more certainty as regards the costs, the tendering was complete and we had a more accurate estimate of the costs. As we indicated in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: Yes, but there would be provision under the BAR heading which would not have been allocated to individual Votes. Then, once we have certainty around the costs, the allocation would be made but it would be provided for within the overall expenditure framework, within the provision that is made in the expenditure book for the BAR. It would not be allocated to the specific Vote, however. I...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: It is.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: It was 75 cent.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: In the overall area of enforcement and compliance, the Revenue has around 2,000 professionals. This is an area of priority for them and they have had a lot of success. I do not have data to hand about the level of seizures, the value, the volume and so on. We can certainly provide whatever information the Deputy needs in that regard, but the Revenue has been given significant resources to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: Section 119 of the 2001 Act, as amended, sets out the penalties imposed for the smuggling of tobacco into the State. The maximum prison sentence that can be imposed is 12 months, with summary conviction in the District Court of five years on indictment in the Circuit Court. A fine may be imposed by the courts in addition to a term of imprisonment, and any tobacco seized is liable to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: I thank the Deputy. Perhaps it might be helpful if we provide an information note about what enforcement activity is undertaken by Revenue and the nature of it. This is one issue. The second issue is a valid policy question about considering the impact of further price changes through excise decisions on the level of smuggling, in effect, of tobacco into Ireland. It is something that...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: I thank the Deputy for his comments. We will arrange for some information to be provided in relation to Revenue activity on the enforcement side when it comes to coal. On the issue of Rosslare Europort, the construction work there has been under way since last month. It is estimated it will take 18 to 24 months to be completed. I acknowledge the Deputy's comments in relation to the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: It is for work completed up to the end of September 2024 in respect of spending incurred by the end of this year.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: Yes. We have been working on this since 2016 and we are fully implementing the various non-tariff customs controls now. As the Leas-Chathaoirleach will be aware, many Irish businesses involved in exporting goods to Great Britain will, for the first time, experience in early 2024 the non-tariff custom controls. From the perspective of Revenue, certainly, it is fully implementing all the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: Taxation decisions continue to be governed by unanimity at EU level and Ireland will always be a strong defender, certainly this Government will be, of the protection of this principle of unanimity. I think the Deputy may be referring to the corporate own resource proposals from the European Commission, which are not agreed at this point. We have made our views well known in this regard....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: In recent weeks, we received an opinion from the Judge Advocate General in the Apple case, that will be taken into account by the European Court of Justice, which may reach the same conclusion or a different one. The ECJ may well refer the case back to the general court or it may deal with the case and arrive at a definitive judgment. That remains to be seen. As long as the matter remains...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Message to the Dáíl (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach, the committee members and the secretariat for facilitating this discussion. I also thank the Revenue Commissioners and my officials in the Department of Finance for all the work they put into preparing for it.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Commissions of Investigation (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: I wish to inform the Deputy that there are currently no commissions of investigation under my Department. My Department is a stakeholder in one commission of investigation, however, this is set up under the Department of the Taoiseach.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: Officials from my Department continue to monitor developments in the vehicle taxation area. New proposals are considered and current vehicle tax policies are kept under review as part of the Tax Strategy Group and Budgetary cycle. Going forward, it is possible that vehicle taxes may shift to a weight-based approach in order to protect the vehicle tax base. Recently, other European countries...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: As the Deputy should be well aware, wealth can be taxed in a variety of ways, many of which are already levied here in Ireland. These include Capital Gains Tax and Capital Acquisitions Tax, which are, in effect, taxes on wealth, in that they are paid by an individual or company on the disposal of an asset or the acquisition of an asset through gift or inheritance. There is also Deposit...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: I propose to take Questions Nos. 91, 99 and 122 together. Progress has been made on efforts to convene a new Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeals (DDMBA), to secure hosting arrangements for the DDMBA and to recommence the appeals process. All five members have now been appointed to the new DDMBA. Funding arrangements between the Department of Finance and the Department of Health have...