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

I request that the delegates, in providing us with the figures on the effective rate, give us the figures for the various calculations. The delegates know precisely what I mean. There is the implicit rate, the aggregated version and all the other versions, which vary radically. Mr. Howard stated there was an effective rate of 9% in 2015. I calculate €6.8 billion paid as a percentage of €142 billion amounts to approximately 5.5%. I have not done the exact calculation. The delegates know that certain calculations would result in this figure as opposed to 9%, which involved a different means of calculation.

That is my first request and I ask the witnesses to confirm that it can be done.