Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 September 2013
Public Accounts Committee
Annual Report and Accounts 2012: Discussion with IDA Ireland
10:40 am
Mr. Barry O'Leary:
I would not say it is abused. I do not know whether there is a matter of misinterpretation. If the amount returned was €5 million out of claims totalling €200 million, there will always be that variance. Like anything else, we are getting down to fine lines about what is scientific discovery, for example. We are not privy to the individual cases.