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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: May we have it today? We should have it today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Why not? I thought those were our instructions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Why not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: As I know he is not present, it is difficult to justify. However, instructions were given last week to write the letter and it has not been written. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: That is not acceptable. It is not acceptable that we instruct somebody to write a letter and they do not write it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Whatever the response to the letter would be, it is not relevant. The relevant fact is that we asked for this letter to be written and it has not been written one week later. Second, I do not understand why we do not have a representative of HSBC in Dublin today. The letter from HSBC states it thinks it could not assist, but I it might be able to do so. I received a telephone call from...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: I agree that that is the message. However, on the second matter, I was told the secretariat was going to get in touch with the Chairman. My understanding was that the Chairman was in favour of somebody coming also. I do not know what happened, but did it get in touch with the Chairman about inviting the Dublin people?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Why was it not acted on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: What?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Why not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: That is completely unacceptable. We ask for somebody to come to the meeting and you have other things to do and cannot do it. Is that what you are telling us?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: You did not do it. Did you convey to the Chairman that you were not going to do this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: You just decided not to do it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: This is crazy. We have a situation where last week we asked for a letter to be written to invite people to appear before the committee. Does the Chairman see what is happening? It was not written on the decision of one of the secretariat. They decided not to write it for some reason. Perhaps they are too busy. I specifically asked, as one of the questioners at the meeting today, that a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: To say, "I did not have an opportunity to act on it," and not to come back, leaving members who were expecting the people concerned to come before them in limbo, is just not acceptable.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: It makes a mockery of the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: I totally disagree with what the Deputy on my right said. There is a pattern developing which is making a mockery of the committee. If members do not recognise this, it is up to them, but it is quite clear to me that if the instructions of the committee are not being carried out, we might as well abandon our role and leave it all up to the civil servants.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Mr. Cody must be an insomniac.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: I welcome Mr. Cody and I congratulate him on his appointment. It seems to me that what he has done since 2010 has been a reasonably good effort at recovering what has been revealed to Revenue. Was Mr. Cody aware of any of this before 2010? I note that in 2009 he made an effort to get court orders about money in Swiss banks. How aware was he of this problem pre the release from the French...