National Economic and Social Council
Dail Éireann — 2023-07-05
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Ruairí Ó Murchú (SF), Louth

We all accept that remote working is a real positive for many people. I have brought up the issue before with regard to cross-Border remote workers who are not facilitated at present. I use the example of PayPal in Dundalk, when it closed its premises and everyone was put on remote working, that those in the North needed to be transferred to PayPal UK. Obviously, a large international company can do that. As small companies are not capable of doing that, we are failing many of those in the Border areas.
The OECD is looking at this on an international basis, but we could be waiting a hell of a long time for it to come up with a solution. I would like to think that this was being brought up at Cabinet level, and that those engagements - some of which may have happened between Revenue and HM Revenue and Customs, HMRC - would be escalated to a higher level, and that we might even look at a bilateral agreement between Britain and Ireland on ensuring that we can deliver a shared island solution.

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