Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 4 December 2014
Public Accounts Committee
Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report
11:00 am
Ms Josephine Feehily:
The totality of what we collected includes information that came from all of the sources. There was huge overlap between all of the sources. By the time we came to the middle of 2003, our case base for this project was pretty settled. We had received pretty well all of the information - not all of the evidence - on which that project was grounded by the second half of 2003. By then, we had secured High Court orders in 1999. As I stated in my opening statement, over the following four years we got close to 250,000 documents. We had also secured High Court orders against certain employees of certain financial institutions. We interviewed employees of financial institutions and had a huge amount of information, as opposed to reports, from the authorised officer by the middle of 2003. Our case base was pretty settled then. After that, we got a considerable amount of more documents, books and records which tended to validate the cases or not. We got very little new information after the middle of 2003.
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