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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
John McGuinness: It is not so much that I would endorse a request. It is the fact that at the meeting last week the format was agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
John McGuinness: That is the issue. The clerk to the committee is not present. On behalf of members, I will raise the issue with him, on his return, and the acting clerk.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
John McGuinness: I agree, but to address the matter, it must be taken up directly with the clerk to the committee and the acting clerk.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
John McGuinness: Notwithstanding all of that, it is important that decisions taken by the committee be acted on in full, unless there is a legal issue such that it cannot be done in that way. If that is the case, when we make decisions, we should be told whether the general outline of the request is within the legal remit of the committee. I will talk to the acting clerk and the clerk to the committee in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Mar 2015)
John McGuinness: The discussion has been noted and action with be taken. On No. 3C, documents relating to today's meeting, we have received correspondence from the Revenue Commissioners, including the opening statement. The correspondence is to be noted and published. At our meeting on 26 March we will be examining the 2013 financial statements of the Dublin Docklands Developments Authority. Is that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
John McGuinness: I remind members, witnesses and those in the visitors gallery to please turn off their mobile phones because they interfere with the transmission and sound quality of the meeting. Witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the committee. However, if they are directed by it to cease giving evidence on a particular matter and continue to so do, they are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
John McGuinness: Thank you, Mr. Cody. Can we publish your statement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
John McGuinness: Thank you.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
John McGuinness: I ask members to keep their mobile phones away from the microphones on the desks because they are interfering with the transmission.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
John McGuinness: All of this information came about because of a whistleblower who had given it to the French tax authorities. Therefore, if the whistleblower had not done what he did, we would not have this information, as there was no way of getting it. The practice of facilitating these types of accounts would have continued and the reason it would have continued, apart from the whistleblower, is that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
John McGuinness: A person gave the French authorities the list.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
John McGuinness: In his father's house.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
John McGuinness: Has Mr. Cody since developed a working relationship with the authorities that allows him to get information for recent years, even where it was not disclosed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
John McGuinness: Mr. Cody must have a name.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
John McGuinness: The fact remains that, even with the tools the Revenue Commissioners have today to track down these accounts, they have not been able to do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
John McGuinness: Therefore, HSBC can claim it was the culture of a little bank in Switzerland that it took over. The advertisement in which it apologised was made after having been caught.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
John McGuinness: I understand that, but I am trying to explore the matter. I know the job Mr. Cody and the Revenue Commissioners did and we know what was collected in taxes, penalties and interest, but the point remains that HSBC took over the bank and that, without the whistleblower, none of the money would have been collected. HSBC, having taken over the bank, was aware not only of the culture, as it has...
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
John McGuinness: Mr. Cody referred to the advertisement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
John McGuinness: Does that type of statement on a website alarm Mr. Cody?
- Public Accounts Committee: Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts (12 Mar 2015)
John McGuinness: Is that not what we are talking about? Somewhere on the globe there is a bank and funding ended up in these Swiss accounts. The bank which claims to be above reproach in this regard - perhaps it is - now apologises for a culture as if it has only discovered it. I find this amazing. This is not to do with the work of the Revenue Commissioners. This emphasises the need to have a...