Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 March 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts

10:00 am

Mr. Niall Cody:

-----sometimes through branches of Irish banks outside the State. This is where our High Court orders were focused. We challenged the courts. We did not get this information lightly or easily. We had to go to the High Court and we were fought in a number of cases. Our High Court orders were challenged as was our jurisdictional territoriality. It is not an easy process; we do not just say we are interested in tax evaders coming clean.