Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition

12:30 pm

Photo of Gerry HorkanGerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Can I conclude from Ms Vestager's response that this is not a question of the tax code but of Apple? The ruling was on Apple, the Commissioner was examining Apple. In respect of the selectivity argument that Apple got a better deal than anybody or everybody else, how many other corporations or entities were examined? Ms Vestager referred to 14 and there are references in the report to either nine or 11 specific cases, although they are not named. Were hundreds of cases examined to get an understanding of what happens in Ireland and how we attract, retain and manage our relationship with foreign direct investment companies?

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