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- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: No doubt Ms Feehily will when the dossier is delivered to Revenue. Can Ms Feehily give us some sense of what will happen next when the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation finally - I hope expeditiously and perhaps on the back of this meeting - sends Revenue the dossier? Who will get it? What will it trigger within Revenue?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Who will analyse it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Ms Feehily would have been aware of media commentary over the past month or so since the dossier came into the possession of members of this committee. Therefore, she would have been aware of concerns, that it referred to matters pertaining to Ansbacher and that it pertained to an investigation of those matters. Did it not occur to her or anyone else in Revenue to make contact with the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: If nothing else, today's meeting establishes that Revenue ought to have the dossier.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Right, but we have something that we wish Revenue to have.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I appreciate that. It was exactly for those reasons that we made the request for the Minister to pass it to Revenue rather than doing so directly ourselves. I want to take Ms Feehily back to something she has said a number of times here today. She has put very strong emphasis on the fact that by the middle of 2003 Revenue essentially had their case base established. Is that right, Ms...
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Was that for project Ansbacher?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: The official has said that, in fact, it was late 2003 that discovery was made of the very secret Ansbacher accounts, the black briefcase or whatever label Ms Feehily wishes to put on it. Therefore, it is at that stage it is alleged that this secret ledger is discovered. Thereafter, in the spring of 2004 that information is made known to the relevant Minister and by the summer of 2004 the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Certainly, Chairman. For the record, I would say that prior to the committee receiving any legal steer on these matters, I, as an individual, had sought advice from the parliamentary legal adviser. In fact, I understand I was the first person to bring the dossier to the attention of that individual. At every step anything that I have done or said has been guided by the legal advice...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Where is the evidence of that, Chairman?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: That is a nonsense.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I would raise one issue concerning that correspondence from Transparency International. Mr. Devitt seems to be under the misunderstanding that the PAC met with the whistleblower in private. We need to write to him to clarify that has not happened. We are all very concerned about the well-being and protection of whistleblowers. Somebody gave the whistleblower's name or even the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: The legal advice to us has been consistent and clear that the Committee of Public Accounts can deal with some of the matters contained in the dossier but only in fairly narrow confines. That was reiterated very clearly and I checked and rechecked that with the legal adviser. It was made very clear that any matters pertaining to specific individuals or allegations of political obstruction...
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: We think there should be Topical Issues tomorrow. It is a normal sitting day and we do not see any good reason to deny Deputies the opportunity to raise urgent matters of the day as normal.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: When can we expect to see the terms of reference for the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes and other institutions?
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Could the Taoiseach tell us when the terms of reference might come before the Dáil, whether we will have the opportunity to amend those terms of reference and whether they will be seen by survivors and advocacy groups? The Taoiseach is probably aware that there is significant concern among the survivors of the Westbank orphanage and some of the other Protestant institutions that they...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Two years later.