Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 December 2018

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

African Development (Bank and Fund) Bill 2018: Committee Stage

2:00 pm

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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I am keen to tease through this. Would it be right to say that the only case where the Department would have access to information on a taxpayer where the subject could be identifiable would not be in the case of policy, although it seems one could make assumptions about the identity? However, a subject would be identifiable in a state aid case. Is that the situation? Heretofore, no information has even been passed between the Department of Finance and the Information Commissioner in respect of taxpayer information. Is that correct?