Green Party TD and finance spokesman Dan Boyle has attacked the Government for its plans to decentralise the Office of the Collector General.
Mr Boyle said in a statement that a report of a memo from the chairman of the Revenue Commissioners to the Department of Finance - allegedly expressing concern that decentralisation would harm the Revenue Commissioners' ability to collect tax - "put another nail into the coffin" of the Government's policy on decentralisation.
"This memo gives further confirmation that this office relocation programme, that the Government insists on calling decentralisation, is not only expensive when the cost of moving workers and purchasing and establishing new premises are taken into account.
"When it is applied to a body such as the Revenue Commissioners it could result in the loss of skilled workers," Mr Boyle said.
He added that the Government's policy of decentralisation would lead to a reduction in exchequer receipts, as well as having wider consequences, and should be scrapped altogether.
"We have endured unthought-through locations, high transfer costs, unhappy workforces and now the admission that this could see the State not only spend too much, but also not collect what it should, in order to bolster this discredited policy."
