Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (Resumed).
2:35 pm
Ms Cora O'Brien:
We are in a unique position in Ireland. The research that has been done by the ESRI and others suggests that we have in some ways been so successful with our brand that we cannot change it now without the risk of it seriously impacting FDI. Although I do not know if this point has come out, the Commission's own impact assessment has actually built in that countries would change their rates.
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