Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 December 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report

11:50 am

Ms Josephine Feehily:

It was quite an informal engagement. There were, for example, three meetings in 2006 at which we followed up with him in terms of looking for documentation. In regard to whether engagements were initiated by him or us, it was probably mutual. There was a considerable amount of engagement. There were three or four meetings in 2005. Letters were also sent back and forth. The activity was during those years. There were letters, meetings and, I have no doubt, phone calls. As I noted in my opening statement, we secured a High Court order to inspect and take copies of documents he held on microfilm. That was also in or around the same period, in 2005. I can only give a flavour of our engagement, I am afraid.