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:

I am not sure I fully understand the Deputy's question. It is for every member state to uphold national legislation and our common legislation at the same time. This is why if member states want to establish state aid schemes, they call the Commission and say they want to do so. Then, if state aid is involved, very often we discuss the scheme in order to take a positive decision to say "go ahead". We do this quite a lot when it comes to renewable energy, broadband roll-out in rural areas and that kind of thing. Then there is the legal certainty of having both the national legislation and our common legislation upheld at the same time and there is a decision to say this is the case.

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