Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 February 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance

10:30 am

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

At least we are on some common ground because these are the precise figures in which I am interested. These are hard facts and not a fictional ceramic company that would be atypical of companies at the centre of the issue. The pre-tax or gross profits in the Central Statistics Office figures do not indicate €40 billion but rather €69 billion. That is approximately €70 billion. How we go from €70 billion pre-tax to €40 billion-----

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