Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 May 2014

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation

Ireland's Corporate Tax System: Discussion

4:50 pm

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

That is an amazing response, to be honest. Could any reasonable person believe the correlation is coincidental given the spectacular wealth of certain individuals, whose current concentration has never been seen before? Circumstances are such that one individual could be worth tens, if not hundreds, of billions of euro. They are the CEOs of the companies in question and we are discussing the means through which the companies avoid, defer or get around taxation. Surely any reasonable person would say there is a strong, if not direct, connection between the phenomena I describe.

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