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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (9 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a Student Universal Support Ireland grant application will be paid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois in view of the fact that the person's last additional information was requested of the person's spouse in mid October and dealt with and the same information was requested of the person on 11 November 2014, however...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Garda Vetting of Personnel (9 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements schools can put in place requesting Garda vetting for students who wish to complete their leaving certificate or FETAC levels 3, 4 and 5 in schools throughout the country in particular schools that are run by the education and training boards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47225/14]

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: I take this opportunity to speak on the Water Services Bill 2014, but it is with no pleasure that we are here discussing this. As everybody knows, earlier last year we had the Water Services Act 2013. The Government came in here full of gusto determined to charge water rates and to set up a new State quango, having spent the previous year saying it would abolish quangos. However, it went...

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: This in-between layer probably just got a little lost in the public arena. As a layman, it looks to me as if the authorised officer did what I would call a preliminary report. I use the word "preliminary" to mean informal. The report was presented to a Minister or other person and the Minister then decided, on the basis of the information provided, that he needed to appoint High Court...

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: Why did the Revenue Commissioners seek a High Court order?

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: Of the cases held in public, was the documentation handed over subject to legal privilege?

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: I am trying to understand the situation. We had the original first report by the authorised officer. There is a suggestion that matters were not followed up. Several eminent High Court inspectors were involved and there were open court proceedings on the matter and a file was sent to the Revenue Commissioners. I got no sense of that from the documentation that was sent to me and other...

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: I am caught for time but I wish to ask Ms Feehily one or two more questions. She will understand that the ten-year rule would cause public annoyance if people were to think the Revenue cannot prosecute after ten years. We regularly hear of the Department of Social Protection chasing people for money they wrongly claimed, even if they went abroad, they were followed up when they came back....

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: But we see every day in the court-----

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: That is fine. We are talking about cases of evasion and criminal activity. People are prosecuted every day in court for crimes they committed many years ago.

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: I will put it to Ms Feehily this way; for other criminal activities the ten-year rule does not necessarily apply. We see people in court for offences committed ten or 20 years ago. In some cases the crimes were committed when the individuals were juveniles but there seems to be a cut-off when it comes to prosecutions for financial misdemeanours. People might have a difficulty with the fact...

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: Am I correct in saying that if one uncovers something and it relates to a case more than ten years ago, while one might not have a power to prosecute, the Revenue has the power to make an attachment order or to send in the sheriff to collect the money and ultimately, the matter can be addressed through the estate of the person in the same way as the Department of Social Protection? While the...

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: I would expect that. To confirm what Ms Feehily said, just because Revenue cannot prosecute people does not mean it cannot collect the money, even ultimately from the estate.

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: I will be brief. Ms Feehily and her colleagues are welcome. I will raise one point because people are getting confused. There is the authorised officer, but Ms Feehily referred regularly in her speech to the High Court inspector's report.

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: Some people might not get the distinction between the two because one flowed from the other. Revenue had to go to the High Court to get orders to gain access to the documents produced by the High Court inspector. Who was the inspector? Whose report was it?

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: Why did Revenue need to go to the High Court? Was this information not forthcoming from it?

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: There was an authorised officer and then the High Court inspectors. To Ms Feehily's knowledge, would the High Court inspectors have covered much of the ground that the authorised officer did or was it a different project altogether?

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: In other words-----

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (3 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: I am pleased because my e-mail to the HSE was so intemperate a lady phoned me the other day on it.