Mr. Algirdas ?emeta:

Regarding Irish commitments on CCCTB, Ireland is experienced in the Presidency and knows well the role of the Presidency. The Presidency should serve as an honest broker to push ahead specific issues. I believe that Ireland will perform this duty. From today's meetings, I am confident that CCCTB will be on the agenda of ECOFIN. This file is mature for political debate. Up to now, we had only technical debate at the level of the Council. All articles of the proposal were thoroughly discussed at the technical level but now the time as come for the political discussion on the way forward. We do not expect that CCCTB can be adopted during the Irish Presidency but it is important that we have political discussion on how to go ahead with this proposal.

On Deputy Stanley's question on wealth tax, which is related to his third question about sovereignty of the member states, the Commission does not want to prescribe to member states what concretely they should introduce.