Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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100. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if all agencies under his aegis have an up to date tax clearance certificate; the agencies which do not have an up to date tax clearance certificate; the reason they do not have a tax clearance certificate in each case, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30291/17]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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In response to the Deputy’s question, the Public Appointments Service, the Office of Public Works, the State Laboratory, the Office of the Ombudsman and the Regulator of the National Lottery are all tax compliant.  PAS and OPW have up to date tax clearance certificates.  The State Laboratory supply their customers with their tax numbers and access codes and the customer uses this information to check tax compliance on the Revenue website as required in real time. 

The Special EU Programmes Body is one of the North South bodies established under the Good Friday Agreement, and therefore comes under the jurisdiction of the North South Ministerial Council (NSMC) and is subject to a Financial Memorandum agreed by the NSMC. Assurances on financial probity are provided by the Comptrollers and Auditors General in both jurisdictions as part of their joint audit on the annual report and accounts of these North/South Bodies.

The Institute of Public Administration and the Economic and Social Research Institute are not State bodies.  However, as they receive funds from my Department, some aspects of the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies apply to them. Both organisations are tax complaint and have current tax clearance certificates.