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Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 23 - Revenue Collection
Chapter 24 - Management of Revenue Debt
Chapter 25 - Taxpayer Compliance
Chapter 26 - Corporation Tax Losses
Chapter 27 - Tax Audit Settlements (20 Feb 2014)

John McGuinness: May we publish Ms Feehily's statement?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 23 - Revenue Collection
Chapter 24 - Management of Revenue Debt
Chapter 25 - Taxpayer Compliance
Chapter 26 - Corporation Tax Losses
Chapter 27 - Tax Audit Settlements (20 Feb 2014)

John McGuinness: Before we begin, I remind members and witnesses and those in the Public Gallery to turn off their mobile telephones and to keep them away from the microphones on the desk because they interfere with the sound quality of the transmission of the meeting. I advise witnesses that they are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they are to give to this committee. If they are...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 23 - Revenue Collection
Chapter 24 - Management of Revenue Debt
Chapter 25 - Taxpayer Compliance
Chapter 26 - Corporation Tax Losses
Chapter 27 - Tax Audit Settlements (20 Feb 2014)

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

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

John McGuinness: I was going to suggest that we meet at the sub-committee next Wednesday. We should give a little time to the clerk so that he can put some information together. Does Wednesday week suit? We can start the process from there, agree on what needs to be done and move it forward.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

John McGuinness: We should wait until the Comptroller and Auditor General has looked at it. That would be my immediate reaction. We suggested Wednesday week for our meeting. NAMA has made it clear to us on a number of occasions that we are welcome to go over to its office to hear a general briefing. We should take up its offer because the extent of the work is such that we had better cover every single...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

John McGuinness: I shall ask the clerk to make the arrangements. No. 3A.7 is correspondence received on 20 February 2014 from the HSE regarding correspondence between Professor Noel Whelan and Mr. Tony O'Brien about public sector pay compliance. It is to be noted and published. The matter has been dealt with already. The HSE is going to receive, or has received, 88 business cases from 27 agencies. Is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

John McGuinness: Yes. How does it evaluate the business cases? I think that was what Deputy Connaughton asked.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

John McGuinness: If we could get that information it would help us to understand how the HSE arrives at its decisions. It will allow us to have a general knowledge of the process. No. 3B is individual correspondence. The first piece of correspondence is from William Treacy re appearance before the committee. It is to be noted.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

John McGuinness: It is down the track a small bit with regard to the amount of work that has been undertaken. I will ask the Clerk to check and see when they are available. Then we will factor them into our-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

John McGuinness: No. 3B.2 is correspondence dated 3 February 2014 from Hayes Solicitors, a reply to Paul Kiely regarding issues raised with the Mater Hospital. It is to be noted and published. We will return to the issue when the CRC special report is available to us. The next item is correspondence dated 7 February 2014 from Mr. Tom Moran, Secretary General at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

John McGuinness: It is a wish not to be left out of the loop.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

John McGuinness: I remind members that we are in public session.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

John McGuinness: No. 3C consists of documents relating to the committee meeting of 20 February 2014. No. 3C.1 is correspondence received on 13 February 2014 from Ms Josephine Feehily, chairman of the Revenue Commissioners, with a briefing paper. It is to be noted and published. No. 3C.2 is correspondence received on 18 February 2014 from Josephine Feehily, which is an opening statement. It is to be noted...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

John McGuinness: Is the work programme agreed? Do members wish to raise any matters? I take it that the work programme is agreed. Under any other business, can we agree our agenda for the meeting of Thursday, 27 February 2014, which we have already outlined? These include: payments made by the HSE to Rehab under section 39 of the Health Act 2004; the operation of the charitable lotteries scheme and the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

John McGuinness: The administrator has to come back to us with the report. We were told the report would be available to us at the end of March. It will go to the HSE first and then the HSE, the CRC board and others will be invited to appear before the committee. We have agreed on that. It will be at the end of March or the beginning of April.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

John McGuinness: As the Clerk said, there is an ongoing process with the HSE and we can check next week what the position is with that. We can then indicate to St. Michael's House and to the HSE that we wish to have its representatives appear before the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

John McGuinness: The committee has agreed that will be the case.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

John McGuinness: No, I expect it to be in April as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

John McGuinness: No. 3A.1 is correspondence received on 12 February 2014 from Mr. Ray Mitchell, HSE. It is a follow-up to issues raised at the committee meeting of 16 January 2014. It is to be noted and published. No. 3A.2 is correspondence received on 13 February 2014 from Mr. Brian Conlan, former CEO of the CRC, with regard to a correction to the record of the Committee of Public Accounts meeting of 16...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Feb 2014)

John McGuinness: Let us put this in context. Next week, the representatives of Rehab will appear before the committee. We have already decided to invite the previous CEO and the remuneration committee to get the other information that is required by the committee. Deputy O'Donnell raised the issue of the report and so forth, and attention has been drawn to the accounts. That will take us the full day next...