Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The official has said that, in fact, it was late 2003 that discovery was made of the very secret Ansbacher accounts, the black briefcase or whatever label Ms Feehily wishes to put on it. Therefore, it is at that stage it is alleged that this secret ledger is discovered. Thereafter, in the spring of 2004 that information is made known to the relevant Minister and by the summer of 2004 the investigation ceases. That is the sequence of events. Given that Revenue had the bulk of its cases established by the middle of 2003, was there a secret ledger? Did the investigator in late 2003, and into early 2004, unearth another ledger and another set of entities or persons requiring investigation? Obviously I am not asking Ms Feehily to name names.