John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

At the last meeting the committee agreed that it would ask HSBC to send a representative, that we would have this meeting with the Revenue Commissioners and that the HSBC representative would sit in on it. There is no information to be had from this representative because they are not aware of the issues involved. We also asked at the last meeting that a letter be sent to HSBC in the United Kingdom to ask if the individual who had attended the UK public accounts committee meeting would be available to attend our meeting. That is my understanding. To refer back to the letter of 9 March, it states that if we have specific issues, we can raise them in writing and that HSBC will consider them. It also states a representative from London is not available. That is the background to the matter.