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- 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.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: He also asked to have his investigation completed.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: On 12 November I raised with the Taoiseach allegations made by a whistleblower from within the ranks of the senior Civil Service. The whistleblower in question was the authorised officer appointed to examine a scheme of tax evasion through Ansbacher accounts. He has come forward with allegations of tax evasion by senior political figures and of obstruction in the investigation and exposure...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: The whistleblower further alleges that other senior figures from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael also held these very secret Ansbacher accounts that were administered by the late Des Traynor and a Mr. Pádraig Colleary, formerly of Guinness & Mahon. The whistleblower reports, as I said, absolute obstruction to his efforts to complete his investigation. He further reports that...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: What next? Can the serving civil servant complete his investigation? I know that he has made that request of the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton. Will he or the Taoiseach permit that? What of any Garda investigation? I know the Minister, Deputy Bruton, very belatedly passed on a witness statement to the Garda Bureau for Fraud Investigation. Will the...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: It is not a case of me making allegations against anyone. I emphasise that these are allegations, but they come from a credible source. The whistleblower alleges Des O'Malley, Ray McSharry, Gerard Collins, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, an S. Barrett, Richie Ryan - a former Minister for Finance - and others -----