Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

It is difficult to contain one's frustration in all of this. In my case, I put forward a motion to this committee in 2013 asking that Apple representatives be brought in to answer some of these questions. The Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Labour parties all banded together to ensure that it did not happen. They even turned off the cameras while we were discussing it. This is the frustration that some of us must put up with in trying to get to the bottom of this. I understand that the Revenue representatives have some constraints but I hope they will tell us as much as they can. Is it Revenue's responsibility to identify loopholes, possible tax evasion and possible tax avoidance and to bring it to the attention of the Government?