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- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Revenue could not prosecute anything after 2002 because of the ten-year rule.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Revenue was pretty squeezed for time. It could have taken some prosecutions in 2001.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Yes I think the last one was in 2007.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: That was after what they called "the huge effort report".
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Did the Revenue Commissioners have a meeting with him after that? The Revenue Commissioners were the only State agency to have a meeting with him. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Does Ms Feehily have minutes of that meeting?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: What was the atmosphere of a meeting such as that? At that time, it appears he was fed up with his investigations having been stymied.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Does Ms Feehily reject the allegations which he is making, as read out by me?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: I do.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Did Ms Feehily ever meet him?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Not personally?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Did Ms Ruddle, who is behind Ms Feehily meet him?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Is there anybody here who had any communication with him?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Okay. That is not his view.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: That is the view of Ms Feehily.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Okay, it is not his view. Let me go further. We are looking at this from the point of view of lost revenue to the State, and whether the Revenue Commissioners are collecting what ought to be collected. The officer is saying in his submission that he believes the reason he was stymied - in that he was called off his first investigation - why the second one, which was "the huge effort...
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Has there never been any indication of that whatsoever?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: Is Ms Feehily saying that in the matter of the Ansbacher accounts, there was never any political interference?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: That is fine. On page 21 of this submission the authorised officer says in effect that his reports on the senior Deputies Caymen accounts were reported to three investigative authorities, the Garda, the ODCE and the Revenue, which were run by persons who had been appointed to their positions by Fianna Fáil and Progressive Democrats Ministers. It is the view of the authorised officer...
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
Shane Ross: What he is saying is that he believes there is a connection between the fact that the three investigative authorities, the Garda, the ODCE and the Revenue did not properly investigate this because there was a connection between them and the fact that the people at the top were political appointees. Would Ms Feehily comment on that? Does Ms Feehily not agree?