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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Correspondence was sent and red flags were raised. I am just trying to find out-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: I am not talking about supervision. I am talking about-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: They got their golden visa, having committed to invest. In this particular scheme, €40-odd million was promised to be invested. That money disappeared. Red flags were raised with the Department. We do not know where that money has gone and the Secretary General does not seem to know where that money has gone. She seems to think it is not the Department's responsibility to follow...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Do any of the witnesses know where the money has gone for that scheme which the Department approved?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: No, liquidation proceedings. There are no criminal proceedings. We just had that confirmed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: I asked if there were criminal proceedings and Mr. O'Dwyer said "No".
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: None of us are aware of any criminal proceedings. Liquidation proceedings are going on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Yes, but I am talking about the €43 million promised in that scheme. The Department approved the golden visas. Now the money has disappeared, the investment has gone and the witnesses do not seem to know where it has gone and take no responsibility whatsoever for it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: That was flagged up in the UK, which was first to close the scheme, then maybe it was brought to the Department's attention. What I am talking about in this particular scheme, there were red-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Sorry, we are talking about a hell of a lot of money and about residency being granted to people following the promise of investing. They did not invest. Huge sums of money, running into millions of euro, that was supposed to be invested in this country has disappeared. Ms McPhillips said earlier that no applications were rescinded, yet this was flagged up with the Department several years ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: So who does?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: The Department carries out a review of applications every two years.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: What happened with this one?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: So nothing happened that we know of.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: In circumstances similar to this case where a review is carried out, what are the consequences? What are the consequences if the investment disappears?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: I am talking about a similar case.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Just one final question-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: I am going back to the immigrant investor programme. To be honest, I find it very difficult to believe that you are not across the serious issues I flagged up relating to the scheme. It is in all of the media and has been flagged up in the public domain.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: You said you would not deal with individual cases, and that is a comfort blanket you are using. If you are comfortable hogging that blanket, I find that incredible coming from the Department of Justice.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: This had been flagged up in the public domain. Do you accept that your Department established a scheme that facilitated potential fraud? Do you accept that?