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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: Can I just go back to the beginning on this? I have is no difficulty with the initiatives being taken around anti-money laundering. That is not what I am questioning. I want to understand where all of this stuff comes from. Who established the Financial Action Task Force?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: G7, was it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: Ireland bought into that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: What sort of timeframe was that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: Was it 1991?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: It was the mid-1990s. Some 200 countries are committed to adopting whatever comes out of that task force.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: While the task force is an intergovernmental body made up of 39 members, what qualifies you to be a member? Who is a member? Is the Minister a member? Is it the Minister's nominee a member?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: It is the Department of Finance, the Department of Justice-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: What is that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: They are all officials. There is no political membership.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: That is just a once-off.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: The task force meets and it is made up of the officials Ms McVeigh has just called out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: Okay. Some attend.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: They discuss the issues of the day and the solutions to problems as it were-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: -----and they make recommendations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: I understand that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: Once it makes the recommendations, it is making them to the 39 member states but also to 200 other countries. Anyone else who wants the standard picks that standard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: How is it then decided on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: Is a set of recommendations agreed by the task force?