Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 December 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report

11:40 am

Ms Josephine Feehily:

They certainly did not cause us to reopen any cases. They would have been helpful in advancing cases because the Deputy saw the graph and we really were in settlement mode there. However, I must repeat that by then, we had secured substantial documents, definitely more numerically, than those to which the authorised officer ever had access. As we had our own sources and our own documentation, what we were getting largely was validation and supporting documentation and that always is helpful.