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- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: That is individuals. What about corporates?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: I accept that. The Revenue Commissioners have recovered €4.5 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: It is €4.6 million here and Spain has recovered €220 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: I accept that. That is fair enough. I wish to ask about dissolved corporates. The Revenue Commissioners kind of eliminated them. Why? Could they not have owed quite a lot of money? They could have been tax evaders.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: The term "non-residents with Irish addresses" confuses me. They have been eliminated. How can someone be a non-resident with an Irish address and then be eliminated from the Revenue Commissioners' inquiries?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Could they be bogus non-resident accounts?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: We are talking about people who basically had two addresses. If they had a holiday home, they gave both addresses.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: However, they were domiciled elsewhere for tax purposes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: That is fine. I might come back later, but I will just finish now. Is there any way that the funds industry could facilitate tax evasion?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: It is very wide, involving stocks and shares, and all sorts of unit trusts and investment trusts. Presumably people could launder money through it if they were ingenious enough. I know all sorts of precautions are taken. Is it not possible that it could be-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Do the Revenue Commissioners investigate the funds industry?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: I know, but does the Revenue Commissioners investigate the funds industry actively?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Is Mr. Cody happy that it is compliant?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Is Mr. Cody happy there is no tax evasion going through the funds industry?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Have there been any cases of it?
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Legal Costs (12 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: 303. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount in legal fees paid by the Road Safety Authority to solicitors' firms each year from 2009 to 2014; the amount paid to each firm in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10998/15]
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (11 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: I am beginning to get a little bit weary of these supposed debates that we have before the Taoiseach heads off to Brussels for summits. One reason I am getting weary of them is summed up in his last sentence, “I look forward now to hearing Deputies’ comments and perspectives”. Where is the Taoiseach? Is he listening to us somewhere else? He left the Chamber the moment...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (11 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: We should naturally have said we sympathise with the Greek plight. Instead we hid behind the skirts of the Germans and the French and we are doing exactly the same on Ukraine and Russia.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (11 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of Aer Lingus (10 Mar 2015)
Shane Ross: That is a gross and deliberate misrepresentation of what I said. I stated that if there is money available, it should be provided for this purpose. The Minister's statement is outrageous.