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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Do you accept that your Department stood over it for almost a decade, and facilitated it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Yes, but I said at the start that we are talking about oversight. I will give an example. As I have said, this was flagged up. Going back to November 2020, there was correspondence between the broker and the investor in that particular scheme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: There was correspondence from the Department. I did not name. There was correspondence from a member of your Department. Is she on the meeting today? Is she on Zoom? She might be willing to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Is there nobody on Zoom or Teams? Right. That is an awful pity. She said it was clear that the Carnbeg holiday village project could not proceed as per the approved business plan. She asked for details to be provided of the investments that had been received, which it was hoped could be reallocated in line with an attached spreadsheet. She said she had eight applications awaiting...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Yes. She wrote that she understood some of the Huawen Foundation approvals had been linked to the Táin Bó fund at some stage. However, after liaising with the fund and reconciling their records, she found that none of the applicants listed in an attached spreadsheet had invested in the fund. If they are not red flags, that was in 2020-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Why were these issues not addressed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Will Ms McPhillips maybe answer a general question, seeing as that is what we are here for?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: I will ask a general question then. When serious issues of potential fraud were flagged, why were they not followed up?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Will Ms. McPhillips tell us whether they were followed up?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Did the Department of Justice-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Did the Department of Justice report any of the projects to An Garda Síochána?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Was Destination North East-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: The reason I am raising this again is that this correspondence confirmed there was €43.5 million in investments in the fund but if we skip forward to this month, a further €40 million was allowed to be funnelled through that scheme-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: -----so that is €80 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: We will go back to plain and simple. Ms McPhillip's Department established the scheme. That scheme-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: That is a programme that has facilitated potential fraud. The Department has stood over that for almost a decade.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: It has been in operation-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: It has been in operation for decades. Ms McPhillips has accepted that the Department granted the golden visas on the promise of investment. That investment never materialised. For areas where particular schemes, or any scheme, were promised investment, will Ms McPhillips how they benefited? In the north east, in particular, how did the people in counties Louth and Monaghan benefit from...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: The Department initiated a scheme where it granted golden visas to investors. Those investments, worth millions of euro, disappeared under its watch.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Ms McPhillips said earlier that she was pretty much washing her hands of it and that she does not follow it.