Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

It remains to be seen whether the multinational companies would give us the inside track on their tax avoidance strategies. The companies at the centre of these allegations are based here and Ireland has been directly accused in the United States, Britain and elsewhere of facilitating aggressive tax avoidance by multinational companies. It defies belief that there does not appear to be a willingness to discuss increasing taxes on these companies when the country is beggared with taxation and austerity measures. That is bad enough but the fact that we cannot even talk about it-----