Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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127. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the reasons the compliance assurance programme was not run in either 2022 or 2023; if the compliance assurance programme was run in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5161/25]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by Revenue that the overall objective of the compliance assurance programme is to validate Revenue’s risk analysis and intervention targeting systems by examining a small number of cases not otherwise selected. Revenue has operated such assurance programme for many years.

In line with public health restrictions relating to Covid-19, Revenue suspended onsite compliance work in March 2020. Many of the cases selected for intervention under the 2020 compliance assurance programme were subsequently finalised under a combined 2020/2021 programme. During the Covid pandemic, Revenue played a central role in operating business support schemes. Following the lifting of the public health restrictions, Revenue’s comprehensive compliance assurance programme focused on payroll taxes and eligibility tests of the business supported by these schemes.

Revenue is currently working on the refinement of the scope and sampling approach for its future compliance assurance programmes. It is intended to recommence this activity in 2025.