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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Yes, but I am talking about the €43 million promised in that scheme. The Department approved the golden visas. Now the money has disappeared, the investment has gone and the witnesses do not seem to know where it has gone and take no responsibility whatsoever for it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: That was flagged up in the UK, which was first to close the scheme, then maybe it was brought to the Department's attention. What I am talking about in this particular scheme, there were red-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Sorry, we are talking about a hell of a lot of money and about residency being granted to people following the promise of investing. They did not invest. Huge sums of money, running into millions of euro, that was supposed to be invested in this country has disappeared. Ms McPhillips said earlier that no applications were rescinded, yet this was flagged up with the Department several years ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: So who does?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: The Department carries out a review of applications every two years.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: What happened with this one?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: So nothing happened that we know of.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: In circumstances similar to this case where a review is carried out, what are the consequences? What are the consequences if the investment disappears?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: I am talking about a similar case.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Just one final question-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: I am going back to the immigrant investor programme. To be honest, I find it very difficult to believe that you are not across the serious issues I flagged up relating to the scheme. It is in all of the media and has been flagged up in the public domain.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: You said you would not deal with individual cases, and that is a comfort blanket you are using. If you are comfortable hogging that blanket, I find that incredible coming from the Department of Justice.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: This had been flagged up in the public domain. Do you accept that your Department established a scheme that facilitated potential fraud? Do you accept that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Do you accept that your Department stood over it for almost a decade, and facilitated it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Yes, but I said at the start that we are talking about oversight. I will give an example. As I have said, this was flagged up. Going back to November 2020, there was correspondence between the broker and the investor in that particular scheme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: There was correspondence from the Department. I did not name. There was correspondence from a member of your Department. Is she on the meeting today? Is she on Zoom? She might be willing to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Is there nobody on Zoom or Teams? Right. That is an awful pity. She said it was clear that the Carnbeg holiday village project could not proceed as per the approved business plan. She asked for details to be provided of the investments that had been received, which it was hoped could be reallocated in line with an attached spreadsheet. She said she had eight applications awaiting...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Yes. She wrote that she understood some of the Huawen Foundation approvals had been linked to the Táin Bó fund at some stage. However, after liaising with the fund and reconciling their records, she found that none of the applicants listed in an attached spreadsheet had invested in the fund. If they are not red flags, that was in 2020-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Why were these issues not addressed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) Imelda Munster: Will Ms McPhillips maybe answer a general question, seeing as that is what we are here for?