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 do not know the specifics of that and I do not know if there can be comparable situations. Ireland has been through perhaps some of the most difficult times of any member state in modern history in Europe. It is very difficult to compare the impact of that extreme situation not only on the Government and on the budget but also on the citizens of Ireland with anything else that has been going on in Europe.
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