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

When we are dealing with intangible assets, we are dealing with a whole new category - let us be clear about this - and a category that, in my opinion, these companies are exploiting to the nth degree. I believe that when a particular heading allows for allowances to jump by a factor of more than ten - from €2.6 billion to €28 billion - we need to know exactly what is going on.