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

I will pick up on that issue in the context of the G20 and the Minister's ongoing engagement with the OECD. It should be a matter of deep concern for any Minister responsible for finance that we have approximately eight different estimates of the effective corporate tax rate in this country, varying from the rather fantastic figure of 14% - referred to briefly by the Taoiseach - down to a figure which the Minister does not take seriously of 2.2%, which was produced by an eminent Trinity professor. It is worth saying that the professor is not on the radical fringe of political thought.