Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 November 2016

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed)

2:00 pm

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Therefore, what the vulture funds are being advised is to take their existing loan books of, say, 10,000 mortgages, package them up into a residential mortgage-backed securities and list the . That will take approximately two weeks. A company in Luxembourg will then buy such a security and, because it is a section 110 vehicle and exempt from the new provisions, the profits deriving from that mortgage book can be placed offshore without any taxes being applied.

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