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:

I can try. To recap, there was a considerable overlap in all sorts of documentary sources. We had his reports and subsequent documents, the High Court inspector's report and the underlying documents which we secured a couple of years later under a High Court order, as well as our own High Court orders and our own research. Our research began subsequent to the McCracken tribunal. Even before we received anything from the authorised officer, a number of cases were coming into frame. There was a huge amount of overlap in all of these numbers. We isolated 27 cases that the authorised officer's reports brought to us and which we did not have from a different source. More than half of those cases had no liability, if I am reading my notes correctly. I am trying to interpret certain figures to see if I can be helpful to the committee. I cannot put a value on the matter today. Ten of the 27 cases that were exclusively down to the authorised officer resulted in additional liabilities.