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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Scrutiny and Budget Priorities: Irish Tax Institute (13 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: On the EII, the additional documentation provided by the institute states that the cap of €150,000 is not working. The cap of £1 million on the equivalent scheme in the United Kingdom is mentioned. The institute is calling for the cap in Ireland to be raised to a similar amount. The documentation also mentions its extension in terms of the universal social charge, USC, and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Scrutiny and Budget Priorities: Irish Tax Institute (13 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Is the €150,000 a cap for the business or the investor?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Scrutiny and Budget Priorities: Irish Tax Institute (13 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: He cannot invest €150,000 in several-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Scrutiny and Budget Priorities: Irish Tax Institute (13 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Is a review being undertaken?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I will come to Mr. Gleeson later. Mr. Connors said at that meeting that he had had a conversation with the SCA outside this room and that somebody from the agency had given him two names. Is that person present? Mr. Breen.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Did Mr. Breen give Mr. Connors outside this room two names of the individuals who told him that all the women had been informed?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: So Mr. Breen did not give any names to Mr. Connors at any stage outside this committee room.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Just to be clear on the names Mr. Breen gave him, the evidence presented to this committee was that Mr. Breen gave him two names of individuals who told the State Claims Agency that all women had been informed. That is not the case.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Does Mr. Connors wish to comment?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: In response to my question at that meeting when I asked who told the State Claims Agency that all women had been informed, Mr. Connors said that he had been given two names-----

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: ----- who had actually said that. Does he accept that is now not the case?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: In fairness, it was more than an assumption because I have the transcript to hand. I said: "Is the person who told the State Claims Agency that all women had been informed in this room?" Dr. Connors said: "Can I answer that? I think the answer is 'No.'"

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Was Mr. Gleeson, in fact, the person who told the State Claims Agency that all women had been informed?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: No.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: However, Mr. Gleeson was part of that teleconference call on 20 April.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Hang on a second. The question I asked was not about any specific meeting or teleconference call because I would not have been aware of any meetings or teleconference calls. The question I asked was: "Is the person who told the State Claims Agency that all women had been informed in this room?" Mr. Gleeson said "No."

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: However, that is not what we are being told now.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: So Mr. Gleeson told the State Claims Agency that all women had been informed or that their clinicians had informed them.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Why did Mr. Gleeson not say that at the meeting?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I think Mr. Gleeson is trying to play with words because the question was very clear on my behalf. I asked who informed the State Claims Agency. Mr. Gleeson informed the State Claims Agency that all women had been informed or their treating clinicians had informed them. The impression given to the State Claims Agency during that teleconference call on 20 April was that all women had been...