Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)

Has the Minister seen any prima facie evidence that financial institutions were facilitating tax evasion and that there was an element of collusion in respect of the use of some of these offshore accounts or does he believe that the institutions had legitimate grounds for believing that all this money was for legitimate purposes and that they were only providing a service which they believed to be legitimate? What does the Minister believe to be the legitimate reasons for these substantial amounts of money — a sum of €100 million has been recovered in the case of just one of these institutions to date — and transactions on that scale being offshore?

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