Results 17,021-17,040 of 35,756 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)
Pearse Doherty: The Revenue Commissioners have written to the financial institutions asking them to provide the information voluntarily. We know from the Minister's answer to a question in the Dáil that the information has not been provided heretofore for the Revenue Commissioners. The subsidiaries have been closed down.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)
Pearse Doherty: Therefore, all the data now lie with the parent company.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)
Pearse Doherty: Therefore, the information of the subsidiaries of the Irish financial institutions is not controlled at this point by the parent company.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)
Pearse Doherty: It is welcome that the Revenue Commissioners have written to them, but I want to know why they did not ask for the information when the companies were wound up in 2012, bearing in mind that they no longer have a board. The winding up process begun in 2012 was completed in 2013 or thereabouts. Why did the Revenue Commissioners not seek the information then?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)
Pearse Doherty: Have the Revenue Commissioners received a response?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)
Pearse Doherty: It is very impressive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)
Pearse Doherty: Let us consider the bogus non-resident accounts. I come from Gaoth Dobhair in west Donegal where there used to be a turf-burning station to generate electricity. I know many people who used to cut turf and sell it to the factory which burned it to generate electricity. To a person, they were advised by a financial institution to put their money in accounts on the Isle of Man. These are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)
Pearse Doherty: Did they involve criminal prosecutions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)
Pearse Doherty: Into which category would they mostly fall? I presume it is fuel.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)
Pearse Doherty: We debated that in the Finance Bill at the time and we disagreed with the lead-in period and all the rest, or at least I did at the time. In respect of Mr. Cody's comments about the information in the public domain where he said, "Our analysis indicated 71 entities that may have an association with Ireland, as well as the 603 addresses and 802 individuals that the ICIJ have associated with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)
Pearse Doherty: Sorry, this is Paradise only.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)
Pearse Doherty: Is it the case that the follow-up by the Revenue Commissioners in respect of these 802 individuals is to profile them, to put that analysis into the computer to look for mismatches and red flags and follow up on each individual?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)
Pearse Doherty: In respect of the Panama Papers, is it the case that all of the information was provided to the Revenue Commissioners at that time? I know the ICIJ will not provide information to the authorities in different jurisdictions but was it the Panama Papers that ended up in the authorities' hands or was it the Luxleaks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)
Pearse Doherty: My question was about one of the leaked documents - I do not know whether it related to the Panama Papers or Luxleaks - which was also leaked to one of the authorities in Luxembourg or somewhere like that. Perhaps one of the other members will recall that better than I do. Therefore, one of the states had it. Was that shared with the Revenue Commissioners? I am referring to the actual raw...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)
Pearse Doherty: Is it open to the Irish authorities to do the same?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)
Pearse Doherty: If the Revenue Commissioners were approached, would they be interested in purchasing the data?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)
Pearse Doherty: I presume Revenue would welcome an approach.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)
Pearse Doherty: We would all welcome that. I put that to the journalists who came before the committee but we all know it is unlikely to happen. I thank Mr. Cody. I might get a chance to speak again later.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)
Pearse Doherty: We are familiar with the system and we know it is complicated.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers: Chairman, Office of the Revenue Commissioners (29 Nov 2017)
Pearse Doherty: Does Mr. Cody believe tax rulings should be made public? Is he opposed to the idea of a law requiring advance tax rulings to be made public?