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

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

No. The suggestion, which is very clear and which I think Mr. Cody understands fully, is that all of us find it simply incredible - not credible - that Revenue did not notice quite some time ago, long before 2013, that a company that was incorporated here was stateless, that the profits from a company that did have a real economic presence here were being siphoned into the stateless company and that those taxes were therefore not being paid anywhere.

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