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- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
John McGuinness: I do not want Ms Feehily to go there. I just want to understand whether Revenue set out to and interviewed individuals.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
John McGuinness: Ms Feehily does not want to comment on this matter, but it is mentioned in the letter of 4 November 2014 that we received. The letter refers to the significant effort that went into the report, the addendum report, the witness statement referred to above, correspondence between the undersigned - that is Mr. Ryan - and a variety of parties and a very large number of copy documents obtained by...
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
John McGuinness: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
John McGuinness: This is 2014 and he still-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
John McGuinness: What is the procedure?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
John McGuinness: I understand all of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
John McGuinness: I acknowledge that Revenue does not have the dossier. However, it has been stated within the dossier that there is evidence to support the statements that are being made. As such, I am asking whether Revenue has the power to ask the individual to be let see the proof.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
John McGuinness: But Ms Feehily will not know that until she sees it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
John McGuinness: But Ms Feehily has to find out.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
John McGuinness: With all of the High Court orders and so on that Revenue will have received-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
John McGuinness: Okay. Will Ms Feehily confer with this-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
John McGuinness: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
John McGuinness: We are going to ask the Minister about this again, but Ms Feehily has heard what members have said. Perhaps she might confirm to us in writing after the meeting what steps she has taken or intends to take after she gives the matter due consideration.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
John McGuinness: I will allow the Deputy to ask a final question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
John McGuinness: It is important to clarify this issue before I call Deputies. On behalf of this committee I wrote to the Minister and asked him, as requested by the committee members at a private meeting, to send on the dossier and any supporting evidence of tax evasion to the Revenue Commissioners. That request was made to the Minister because this committee could not forward the documentation directly to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
John McGuinness: That is not Ms Feehily's fault. The point is that she should have seen it. It should have been sent to Revenue. That was and still is the request of this committee. Deputy Ross was quoting material and asking Ms Feehily questions based on the presumption that, at the request of the committee, all of this has happened, but it has not. We will ask the Minister again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
John McGuinness: I remind Deputy Ross of his time limit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
John McGuinness: May we publish your statement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
John McGuinness: We will concentrate in this investigation solely on the issue of the Ansbacher investigation. Before we begin, I remind members, visitors and those in the Visitors Gallery to turn off their mobile phones or remove them from the desk in front of them as they interfere with the sound quality and transmission of the meeting. I advise witnesses that they are protected by absolute privilege in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)
John McGuinness: I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to introduce the 2013 account.