Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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28. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Companies Registration Office will be extending the deadline for annual returns and accounts in view of the extension of the current level 5 lockdown. [5706/21]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Registrar of Companies is a statutory role and the Registrar has administrative independence in the exercise of this function. 

In light of the Covid-19 situation, the Registrar had taken a number of decisions during 2020 to assist companies with the filing of annual returns. Most recently, in October 2020, the Registrar announced that any company with an Annual Return Date from 30th September 2020 onwards would be deemed to have filed on time if all elements of the annual return were completed and filed by 26th February 2021. 

I am informed that the Registrar has kept the situation under ongoing review and has decided to extend the current filing arrangements, until 28th May 2021, for those companies with an Annual Return Date from 30th September 2020 onwards.