Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 December 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks
9:30 am
Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source
A letter was sent on 15 September 2015 by Appleby to AIB for the attention of Andrew Smith, head of AIB group legal services. It comes in the context of Mr. Byrne being in AIB and he would have a certain responsibility for it. It states that Appleby had been instructed by AIB ISL Limited in respect of Mr. Smith's letter of 3 September 2015 in which he asked whether AIB ISL Limited would consent to AIB plc reviewing customer data held in AIB's data server for documents relevant to the disclosure orders made by the Irish High Court and, if relevant, disclosing them to the Revenue Commissioners. It further states that it was not possible for AIB ISL to consent to that request. If that letter exists, as I believe it does, does that not illustrate that Mr. Byrne misled the committee when he said that-----
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