Tim Lombard (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Can I safely say that if there has been a yearly average for the last three years of 96%, when the technologies have not been changing over the period of my lifetime in farming, that the yearly average would be 96% this year? The world has not changed in a day. If we are going to get the yearly average of 96% this year, then for the next nine months, the only way you can achieve that is to have a 97% average going forward. Would Ms Lyons be confident that Revenue will have a 97% average for the next nine months so the percentage of 96% over the last three years will be consistent?