Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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760. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to a settlement between a State agency (details supplied) and the Revenue Commissioners; if there are any agencies under his Department’s remit that have had a similar issue or have made a settlement with the Revenue Commissioners in relation to any issue in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48017/21]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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It is assumed that the information sought by the Deputy relates to a settlement between the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) and the Revenue Commissioners which arose from a voluntary disclosure by the SFPA. The matter was in relation to an underpayment of tax arising on the BIK treatment of state vehicles. The settlement has been disclosed in SFPA's financial statements and annual report(s) in 2018, 2019 and 2020. Following consultation by this Department and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, the SFPA received sanction in October 2019 to move to a Civil Service based mileage model and the retention of a limited number only of officially logoed utility vehicles. At present, the SFPA maintains and owns a small fleet of utility vehicles (currently 8) in support of its role as a fisheries and food safety enforcement agency. These vehicles are treated as “pool” vehicles and are provided solely in support of the SFPA’s role.

Information concerning the remaining eleven State Bodies under the aegis of my Department is an operational matter for the State Bodies themselves, and I have referred the question to them for direct reply.