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

This is not about directing remarks at Mr. Keegan personally. I was surprised that he would not accept that there was a connection between tax avoidance and the widening gap between the rich and poor. He states he teaches compliance with the law. As I do not know a lot about what he teaches, I am not personalising the issue at all. There is the question of compliance with the law and that of getting around the law legally. We are trying to determine whether there is a connection between tax avoidance by multinationals that make such extraordinary profits and the CEOs of which are spectacularly rich and among the richest in the world and the fact that there is a huge gap between the rich and poor.