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Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: I am caught for time but I wish to ask Ms Feehily one or two more questions. She will understand that the ten-year rule would cause public annoyance if people were to think the Revenue cannot prosecute after ten years. We regularly hear of the Department of Social Protection chasing people for money they wrongly claimed, even if they went abroad, they were followed up when they came back....

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: But we see every day in the court-----

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: That is fine. We are talking about cases of evasion and criminal activity. People are prosecuted every day in court for crimes they committed many years ago.

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: I will put it to Ms Feehily this way; for other criminal activities the ten-year rule does not necessarily apply. We see people in court for offences committed ten or 20 years ago. In some cases the crimes were committed when the individuals were juveniles but there seems to be a cut-off when it comes to prosecutions for financial misdemeanours. People might have a difficulty with the fact...

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: Am I correct in saying that if one uncovers something and it relates to a case more than ten years ago, while one might not have a power to prosecute, the Revenue has the power to make an attachment order or to send in the sheriff to collect the money and ultimately, the matter can be addressed through the estate of the person in the same way as the Department of Social Protection? While the...

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: I would expect that. To confirm what Ms Feehily said, just because Revenue cannot prosecute people does not mean it cannot collect the money, even ultimately from the estate.

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: I will be brief. Ms Feehily and her colleagues are welcome. I will raise one point because people are getting confused. There is the authorised officer, but Ms Feehily referred regularly in her speech to the High Court inspector's report.

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: Some people might not get the distinction between the two because one flowed from the other. Revenue had to go to the High Court to get orders to gain access to the documents produced by the High Court inspector. Who was the inspector? Whose report was it?

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: Why did Revenue need to go to the High Court? Was this information not forthcoming from it?

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: There was an authorised officer and then the High Court inspectors. To Ms Feehily's knowledge, would the High Court inspectors have covered much of the ground that the authorised officer did or was it a different project altogether?

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: In other words-----

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (3 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: I am pleased because my e-mail to the HSE was so intemperate a lady phoned me the other day on it.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (3 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: Yes. I told the lady that I understood what she was saying but it is not possible for this 75 year old elderly couple to understand it. I am holding out hope for those people to whom I have spoken in my constituency this week that early next year the system will be reviewed and we will be able to get them the medical cards to which they are entitled.

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (3 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: I thank my colleague, Deputy Kelleher, for tabling the motion on the underfunding of the national service plan for 2015. When he launched the plan on Thursday, 27 November, the HSE Director General, Tony O'Brien, said the additional funding "will not...be sufficient to fully address the increasing demands being placed on our hospital system, in particular the growing waiting lists for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (3 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 88. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will receive a date for their heart bypass operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46451/14]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Appointments to State Boards (2 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 144. To ask the Taoiseach the number of State board appointments that have been made under the aegis of his Department in 2014 without being advertised; the number that have been made of persons who had not formally applied for consideration of the particular appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46552/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Appointments to State Boards (2 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 169. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of State board appointments that have been made under the aegis of her Department in 2014 without being advertised; the number that have been made of persons who had not formally applied for consideration for the particular appointment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46551/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Appointments to State Boards (2 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 234. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of State board appointments that have been made under the aegis of his Department in 2014 without being advertised; the number that have been made of persons who had not formally applied for consideration of the particular appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46547/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Appointments to State Boards (2 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 241. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of State board appointments that have been made under the aegis of his Department in 2014 without being advertised; the number that have been made of persons who had not formally applied for consideration of the particular appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46177/14]