Public Expenditure Policy
Dail Éireann — 2023-06-27
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Rose Conway-Walsh (SF), Mayo

I thank the Minister for that, but the question I asked was whether he had sought information from PwC. Was he concerned about what happened in Australia and the connection to Ireland? Notwithstanding all of the guarantees and safeguards he says are there, I would have thought that if something like this happened, the Minister would have sought extra assurance. The top tier of PwC has simply not approached this in an open and transparent manner. The internal review the Minister mentioned is an attempt to avoid transparency and oversight. In 2015 when senior PwC staff in Australia were sharing confidential tax information globally, there were secondments to the Department of Finance here, working in the tax division. Will the Minister implement a review of the practice of secondments from private consultants into the public sector? Does he have oversight of the number of private consultants working with confidential information either through contracts or secondments? We need to look at this with a fresh set of eyes, particularly given what has happened in recent times.

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Sitting date: 2023-06-27