Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I would like to support Deputy Dara Murphy's amendment. It has been suggested that the sub-committee does not want to bring in multinational corporations and is blocking that in some way. I wrote to the Chairman recently to request the establishment of this sub-committee. My attempts to gain a position on my own committee were unsuccessful, but I will be there for all of the hearings. Having requested the sub-committee's establishment, I do not doubt that multinational corporations will be brought in at some point. I agree with Deputy Pearse Doherty that multinational corporations are experts in a kind of tax avoidance. We need to be very clear in public session about the difference between evasion and avoidance.