Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 4 December 2014
Public Accounts Committee
Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report
12:00 pm
Ms Josephine Feehily:
It was a High Court order regarding an offshore financial institution. When we received the documents, following up on our 289 cases, we found that there was a particular practice which meant an Irish clearing bank had other documents we could get. We looked for the order under the Ansbacher project, and it gave us what we needed. From it, we learned how clearing banks and offshore banks were interconnected, and we went for new orders. That is what I meant when I said we spun off a project from it and followed it in another direction which had nothing to do with Ansbacher. I am sorry if I confused the Deputy.