Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 February 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners
9:30 am
Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
The question is how the politics influenced their decision, if at all. Does the Minister accept that from the Commission's point of view the decision was based on its interpretation of state aid rules and how they related to Ireland's application of tax law to Apple? What role did politics play? The Minister raised the issue. He said it was a mix of tax law and politics. I am trying to clarify, in the Minister's opinion, what role politics played in this decision?
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