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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: You did not do it. Did you convey to the Chairman that you were not going to do this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: You just decided not to do it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: This is crazy. We have a situation where last week we asked for a letter to be written to invite people to appear before the committee. Does the Chairman see what is happening? It was not written on the decision of one of the secretariat. They decided not to write it for some reason. Perhaps they are too busy. I specifically asked, as one of the questioners at the meeting today, that a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: To say, "I did not have an opportunity to act on it," and not to come back, leaving members who were expecting the people concerned to come before them in limbo, is just not acceptable.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: It makes a mockery of the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: I totally disagree with what the Deputy on my right said. There is a pattern developing which is making a mockery of the committee. If members do not recognise this, it is up to them, but it is quite clear to me that if the instructions of the committee are not being carried out, we might as well abandon our role and leave it all up to the civil servants.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Mr. Cody must be an insomniac.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: I welcome Mr. Cody and I congratulate him on his appointment. It seems to me that what he has done since 2010 has been a reasonably good effort at recovering what has been revealed to Revenue. Was Mr. Cody aware of any of this before 2010? I note that in 2009 he made an effort to get court orders about money in Swiss banks. How aware was he of this problem pre the release from the French...
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Prior to 2009 when Revenue looked for those orders, how much money was recovered from people who were indulging themselves in tax evasion in Swiss banks?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Mr. Cody knows that there are buzz words such as "secrecy", which was used in the advertisement to which he alluded, and Swiss bank secrecy in particular.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: The advertisement is really saying in code, "Come and bury your money with us".
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: We all knew about the Swiss bank secrecy and we all knew that this was happening. What was Revenue doing before that? How much money has been lost to the Irish Revenue because Revenue was not particularly active in that particular area? It is clear that Revenue got great results from Jersey, the Isle of Man and other tax havens, which is what they are. It appears that with regard to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Did the Swiss banks co-operate with Revenue?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: In no way at all. They are not part of any of this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: They are not allowed to do so. Did they reply to Revenue's letters? Did Revenue write to them?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Did Revenue get a reply?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: So the year 2010 was the big breakthrough, when Revenue got the information.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: From where did the money that ended up in HSBC in Switzerland come?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: I am talking about the money involved in tax evasion.