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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Let me present a scenario in which there is a scheme where the money does not materialise or is outside the State and people who invested €1 million, €2 million or €3 million in the scheme are given status and residency on the basis of that investment. Let us say a number of people invested €20 million in the scheme and this is never invested in the project in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: What I am trying to figure out is that when these things happen with a particular agent or investor, normally the first thing that would be done is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Even before consequences, someone would press the pause button and would not allow the hole to get any deeper. I will be non-specific but what I am trying to figure out for the committee - I think it is what Deputy Munster was trying to figure out - is why, in such a circumstance, a scheme would be allowed to continue and to take in further investments from a number of other individuals?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Where there is an agent-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: If a project was allowed to continue with the same agent and people were still investing in it, obviously those people would be in a situation in which they are being misled. If, in a hypothetical situation like that, the investor does not respond to the Department's senior officials, there is no information on where, we will say, the first €20 million went, another €30 million...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: I know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: That is not the question. I hear that and I have listened very carefully to the replies. What I am asking is a different question. Why would that agent or investor be allowed to take in money from other individuals for a project when there has been no sight of the original €20 million from, we will say, ten investors?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: What if one of them did not co-operate at all?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Could money not be found?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: It did not go into the projects. Is it not the case that there have been cases where investors or agents have continued taking in money that was supposed to go into projects? I have copies of correspondence from an official in Mr. O'Connor's Department-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Yes, unless what somebody gave me is fraudulent. It shows that there are investors who put in money. The money does not go into the project, but what appears to have happened are situations where that agent was allowed to continue, investors were allowed to continue, the projects were kept open, and the money was still being put forward by some of these international investors. This was...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: The letters from Mr. O'Connor's Department would indicate that one could not just disagree.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: I know that, okay. I accept that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Mr. O'Connor should talk about cases.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: That has happened in all cases, from correspondence I have seen.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: However, where a scheme hits a brick wall, the scheme should not continue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Yes, sorry. Projects should not continue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: Where there is 100% concern, and there is nothing coming back, what happens? There is no money.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: If there was no money and no responses, Mr. O'Connor. Come on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Brian Stanley: I am talking about a hypothetical situation. Is Mr. O'Connor saying to me that the Department, where there is no response from one of these agents and where we have not seen the colour of the money-----