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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: We want to wait for the Comptroller and Auditor General to come back with the report and then we will be able to deal with it comprehensively. That is the plan.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: When we get the report next week on oversight we can then decide what members want to do about it. We have received a query in correspondence about a file on Temple Bar Properties and the Viking Centre. Is that to do with local government?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: What about the European funding of it? Where projects are funded by local government funding and European money, who-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: Does that mean if it came from Europe through the Department to the local authority for that particular project, the Comptroller and Auditor General would see it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: To get information on the project, how the money was spent and whether it was spent correctly, to whom does one write? Is it the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: I ask the members to agree that we will get some information on this project. A file was sent to us a while ago and the person who sent it has asked us to look at it again. We may have dealt with it at some stage but I have it here. The other issue I wanted to ask about was the contract being put in place for the construction of the Luas extension. Can we get a note on the process? The...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: Not yet. I have just received it, but I will circulate it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: It is the Grant Thornton report not available to us either?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: Is that another legal grey area?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: By an individual.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: Do we have clarification on this? We were writing to Mr. Merrigan at one stage.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: Can we get clarification on the up-to-date position on the last correspondence sent from here? We took legal advice, they wrote on behalf of the committee and I would like to know what is the up-to-date position with regard to where the correspondence now lies.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: Any other matter?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: We will, of course. We have asked for the report but we have not got it as yet. We will remind it again and we can arrange it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: We will get the report first and look at its content, and the Deputy can determine whether he wants to pursue it. If he wishes to pursue it the commission can be invited. We have agreed on wards of court and we have discussed next week's agenda.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15: Local Property Tax
Chapter 16: Taxation of Rental Income
2014 Account of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: I invite the Comptroller and Auditor General to make his opening statement.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15: Local Property Tax
Chapter 16: Taxation of Rental Income
2014 Account of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: I thank Mr. McCarthy and invite Mr. Cody to make his opening statement.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15: Local Property Tax
Chapter 16: Taxation of Rental Income
2014 Account of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: May we publish Mr. Cody's statement?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15: Local Property Tax
Chapter 16: Taxation of Rental Income
2014 Account of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: The Deputy's time-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15: Local Property Tax
Chapter 16: Taxation of Rental Income
2014 Account of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Jul 2015)

John McGuinness: Taking up the point about the shadow economy, at last week's meeting one of the members pointed out that a delegation from the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly had visited some of these fuel laundering plants. It seems their location is well known to people and there was a general awareness of cross-Border activity in this regard. If what is going on is so well known that the delegation...