Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Saint-Amans. I wish to discuss loopholes in Ireland. One of the sub-committee's objectives, and certainly the reason for setting it up, is to identify the loopholes in Irish law being exploited by multinationals. Mr. Saint-Amans's point was well made, in that these are multinational problems and should be solved internationally. The international taxation regime is complex. Are a small number of Irish taxation laws being exploited to a large degree? A full analysis might show hundreds of laws and sub-clauses, but could we close one or two large loopholes that are being used by multinational corporations?