Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 7 February 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed)

4:00 pm

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am interested. I am not casting any aspersions on the character of the individual, but in sworn testimony before a US Senate hearing - I can read the transcripts if Mr. Redmond wishes but I am sure he is familiar with them - he speaks of a special tax arrangement. When he was asked under questioning from Senators, he said that was 2%. I think Mr. Tim Cook followed that up in that there was a special tax incentive to attract Apple to Ireland in the 1980s. Does Mr. Redmond stand by that? It goes to the core of the matter, whether there was a special tax arrangement with the Government or with the independent Revenue Commissioners?

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