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

Ms Margrethe Vestager:

It depends on whether the government in question wants to give aid. If it does, there is the question of the size of the airport involved. We are in the process of passing a regulation that will enable and empower a member state to take more of these decisions by itself. As I said, it depends on the size of the airport involved and the number of passengers passing through it per year. It also depends on whether it is a business that does not need operational aid or if it is a particular scenario where an airport is needed for reasons of geography and connectivity. I am sorry, but as I do not know the details of the specific airport, I cannot answer the question. It would depend on the characteristics of the airport involved.

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